A Catechism on the Reproductive Health Bill

Prepared by the Commission on Family and Life

Diocese of San Pablo

What is the Catechism on the Reproductive Health Bill?

Many issues had been raised in the public square recently which put the Church in the negative light particularly on the overreaching issue of the proposed Reproductive Health Bill (H.B. No. 96) reintroduced in the present Congress with Representative Edcel C. Lagman as its principal author. We believe that most of the criticism leveled against the Church which included the bishops and the clergy in regard to their stand against the bill is based on unfounded and imagined fears and the lack of proper information and understanding of the nature of this measure that prompted the Church to opposed it.

This Catechism was prepared primarily for the lay faithful , the family and life ministries in the different parishes of the Diocese of San Pablo and the clergy to provide them an overview of the salient features of the bill that they may not be aware of, offend the teachings of the Church.

What is the purpose of this Catechism?

The Commission on Family and Life recognizes the urgent need to provide both the clergy and the lay faithful adequate information on the RHB issues and related concerns consistent with the perspective of the Church. With a correct notion and understanding of the crucial issues laid before them, they can hopefully be able to distill erroneous perceptions and discern deliberately distorted information designed to create a favorable view of the bill at the expense of truth.

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2011 – Marie Curie Year

Around 80 events – academic sessions, exhibitions and competitions for young people – are planned this year in tribute to Maria Skłodowska-Curie (Marie Curie) 100 years after she received the Nobel Prize in chemistry.


The famous Polish scientist will be honoured outside her homeland as well, notably in France, where she spent most of her life. A gala inauguration of the Year at the Sorbonne in Paris, on 29 January, is to be attended by President Nikolas Sarkozy.


Born in Warsaw in 1867, she graduated from the Sorbonne. In 1903 she wrote a dissertation which became the first doctorate in science awarded to a woman in Europe.


In the same year, she was awarded, together with her husband, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel, the Nobel Prize in Physics.


In 1906 her husband was killed in an accident. In 1911 she was awarded a second Nobel Prize, this time in Chemistry. She devised a method to isolate radium and study its properties, a discovery which later paved the way for cancer therapy.


Skłodowska-Curie was a global celebrity but scandal erupted when news of her affair with a married scientist, Paul Langevin, emerged in the press, prompting angry protesters outside her home and unpleasant newspaper coverage.


During World War I, together with her daughter Irene, she fitted ambulances with portable X ray equipment, driving vehicles to the front line. She died in 1934 of leukemia, which is supposed to have been caused by her high exposure to radiation.


Last year, Maria Skłodowska-Curie was named ‘the most inspirational female scientist’ in an online poll by the prestigious British weekly ‘New Scientist’. She received 25.1 percent of the votes, ahead of Rosalind Franklin, the British chemist (14.2 percent) and Hypatia of Alexandria, the fourth-century mathematician (9.4 percent).


She is also the only Pole in the list of twenty five most influential women of the twentieth century compiled by the Time magazine last year.