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Focus on stability of rice not population, pro-life group tells gov’t
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DAVAO CITY, The pro-life groups in Davao City has scored the government anew for bringing out the issue on population control as it wrestles with the towering prices of rice.
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This came after Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Sergio Apostol said in a national news report that “the government will check whether or not the growing population has become “an asset or liability” as it grapples with the soaring global prices of rice.”
Family and Life Apostolate Coordinator Dr. Gilda Del Mar said that overpopulation is not an issue in the country but “the effective implementation of social services to the people.”
“It (overpopulation) has never been an issue. It only becomes an issue when the government starts to insist the need for population control through its reproductive agenda,” said Del Mar.
According to the news report that quoted the government saying, “the country’s population reached 88.57 million last year, up from 76.5 million in 2000.”
“So, all the more, the government has to focus on providing employment, provide the basic social services of the people and make concrete actions to help increase and stabilize the supply of rice,” she said.
The latest population figure came out at the height of the rice supply crisis. Apostol also admitted that a large population could either benefit or affect a nation’s economic growth.
Prolife groups in the city, however, expressed apprehension that the issue on rice crisis will again be used to advance the reproductive agenda of the government.
Last week, prolife groups in the city expressed aversion on the passage of the local development plan for children which the Catholic Church earlier described as “detrimental” and “dangerous.”
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