08-06-2012, 04:36 PM
(08-04-2012, 12:30 AM)NiX Wrote: To be fair, there are non-stupid reasons to be against the RH bill, while not necessarily being against its ideals. Most of its provisions already exist in some shape or form, with the obvious exception of the free contraceptives. Some would argue that the budget for the program (P3 Billion, last I checked) is better used for other more pressing issues. I'm honestly being a fence sitter about this, being unsure whether I'm for or against. Just saying it isn't black and white.
Things get a lot more complicated if we reason from that perspective. We need to look at things from a long run perspective, meaning, will the 3-billion spent now for the RH Bill stipulations end up saving the country a lot of money in the long run (next 10-20 years)? I'd like to believe that yes, it would.
The reasons for this are clear:
- More leeway for the government to distribute funds for extremely important services, such as social welfare and education. It's imperative that Filipino children get better education since we've been shifting to a service-oriented economy from an agriculture based one.
- Less people to serve means more money to spend, and potentially better quality of service. It also means more money for parents to spend on the children they already have
- Passing the RH bill will make the masses better informed about contraception
- In the long run, less need to send skilled professionals overseas because of more opportunities locally since there'd be less competition for available jobs
- Less need to spend on infrastructure to provide for booming population in the future. Our GDP isn't matching the rate of population expansion.
From a quantitative sense, it makes very good investment sense to spend on RH related issues as soon as possible.
