The Catholic Bishops Conference say they have got the RH Bill sewn up - depressing...

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..because English is a national language.

National newspapers are published in it; national TV programmes use it, it is the language of the Law and of Congress.

There are people who refuse to use Taglish because it is a language that can only be understood if you are bilingual (and "hip"!) in both English and Taglog so you don't "get through" to anyone else, and there are people who use English because their native tongue is not Tagalog and they don't see why they should use Tagalog if they are native speakers of Ilocano, Bisayan, etc...

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..because English is a national language.

National newspapers are published in it; national TV programmes use it, it is the language of the Law and of Congress.

There are people who refuse to use Taglish because it is a language that can only be understood if you are bilingual (and "hip"!) in both English and Taglog so you don't "get through" to anyone else, and there are people who use English because their native tongue is not Tagalog and they don't see why they should use Tagalog if they are native speakers of Ilocano, Bisayan, etc...

I see.

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This is interesting.

Representative Kimi Cojuanco supports the RH Bill, and has made good use of Government statistics.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/254976/...o-poverty-nscb

Marriages are decreasing by 1.5% a year whilst the population is rising by 2% a year - because the poor cannot afford to marry, still less can they afford an annulment should they find they have made a mistake.

Many of these new households will have been formed because the girl got pregnant, because neither he nor she had access to contraception...