Catholic leaders battle against free birth control in the Philippines

[edhopper]

Just saw a segment about this on PBS NewsHour.

http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-01-22/catholic-leaders-battle-against-free-birth-control-philippines

Such a forward thinking institution

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And BTW the Church help put "life begins at conception" wording into their Constitution.

The Philippines, the country the Church wishes America was more like.

[rug]

1. How do you explain Singapore?

[edhopper]

3. obviously

people are moving there.
Low birth rate and all. I'm sure it's by design, as is all things in Singapore.

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. It also has one of the world's lowest death rates

Population growth rate:
1.89% (2015 est.)
country comparison to the world: 57

Birth rate:
8.27 births/1,000 population (2015 est.)
country comparison to the world: 221

Death rate:
3.43 deaths/1,000 population (2015 est.)
country comparison to the world: 217

Net migration rate:
14.05 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2015 est.)
country comparison to the world: 8

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/sn.html

[Dawson Leery]

2. What a horrible, evil, morally bankrupt institution the RCC is.

All of those children and no way to care for them.

[Warren Stupidity]

4. I'm sure there will be a ridiculous deflection here to misdirect away from the misogyny

of the RCC and the dubious ethics of people who financially support that institution.

[trotsky]

5. There must already be since there are missing posts for me.

So nice to be spared from apologist bullshit for conservative, anti-gay, anti-woman, anti-human policies.

[edhopper]

7. That post asked

"How do you explain Singapore?"

[trotsky]

8. What's to explain?

[edhopper]

9. Well you can read my reply.

But what that has to do with the Church and the Philippines is beyond me.

[trotsky]

10. No, it too is hidden.

One of the downsides of ignore.

[edhopper]

11. it was

"Obviously, people are moving there.
Low birth rate and all. I'm sure it's by design, as is all things in Singapore."

really didn't add anything to the conversation.

[cleanhippie]

12. What an idiotic question for someone to ask.

Maybe if there were some explanation or reasoning along with it.

Considering the source, it's understandable.

[edhopper]

13. My guess is

"Oh look, there is another country with a bigger population growth that isn't Catholic."
Failing to see that it isn't due to the birth rate. But I am only speculating, it could have been a genuine inquiry.

[trotsky]

14. "it could have been a genuine inquiry"

[cleanhippie]

15. I've no doubt that it was genuine.

Genuine idiocy.

[Warren Stupidity]

18. The rcc is banking on high birthrates in

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third world countries to replace their declining European and American flock.

[Lordquinton]

19. Bury rates?

Can you expand upon that?

[Warren Stupidity]

20. yes. autospell sucks.

[Warren Stupidity]

16. Nobody has ever adequately explained Singapore.

I mean seriously, what is it? A country? A city? An odd warping of space time? Weren't they the ones canning people for chewing gum in public? What the heck is up with Singapore?

[Lordquinton]

17. What even is Singapore?

We may never know...