ANG PROLIFE (Party-List Organization) is an organization comprising a coalition of individuals and organizations committed to the Pro-Life and Pro-Family advocacy. Its founders and members have been lobbying for the protection of LIFE and the Family in all its aspects and incidents, before congressional committees and public offices where they confront laws and policies that destroy and undermine the Pro-Life and Pro-Family values enshrined in the 1987 Constitution (such as continuing attempts to enshrine a Culture of Death in the Philippines through bills on divorce, euthanasia, abortion, birth control, reproductive rights, population control, and homosexuality). We believe and affirm that ANG PROLIFE will be the first and only party list organization instituted with the primary objective and mission to Reclaim the Culture of Life in the Philippines through direct participation in the legislative branch of government, beginning with the forthcoming Elections in 2013.
For
this purpose, and pursuant to the rules of the Commission on Elections, ANG
PROLIFE has submitted the names of five nominees for the 2013 Elections,
namely:
1.
JAMES M. IMBONG
General Counsel, St. Thomas More Society Philippines
2.
JEREMY I. GATDULA
Lawyer, Educator
& Professor
3.
LORNA BARCARSE MELEGRITO
Executive
Director, Pro-life Philippines Foundation
4.
LAREINA LEA MANALANG-GARCIA
Teacher
5.
EDGARDO JOVEN TRIA TIRONA
Advocate for Poverty Alleviation and Social Development
We
hold that good families make good citizens, and good citizens build families
that become the nation’s engines of authentic and total growth. We pledge to
pursue this mandate in partnership with friends and cooperators like you who
value LIFE and the FILIPINO FAMILY in all its aspects and incidents.
JAMES
M. IMBONG
Secretary General
ANG PROLIFE
PARTY-LIST ORGANIZATION
Platform of Government
RECLAIMING
THE CULTURE
OF LIFE
Preamble
In the decades following the promulgation of our 1987 Constitution, we have seen
a consistent attempt by legislators to inject a culture of death in the Filipino way of LIFE.
At the turn of each Congress, several “death” bills are repeatedly filed and constantly
debated (bills on divorce, euthanasia, abortion, birth control, reproductive rights,
population control, and homosexuality). And the turn of each Congress, the opponents of
these bills never cease to engage and speak the truth, in their attempt to uphold the
fundamental guiding principle established in the Preamble of the 1987 Constitution, that
is: to establish a Government that embodies the ideals and aspirations of the sovereign
Filipino people, under the aid of Almighty God.
Realizing that the development of every nation depends on the LIFE of its
citizens, ANG PROLIFE affirms and confirms its core values in favor of LIFE, in all its
aspects and incidents.
Values and Platform of Government
ANG PROLIFE is—
A convergence
of families,
family organizations, parents, and youth,
working in solidarity to nurture a culture of peace
that values, fosters and protects
the fundamental rights of parents, children,
and the Family.
A response
to the problem of man,
with his intrinsic dignity and value
.
An exaltation of the Family,
the fundamental mediating agency in society,
contributing to peace.
We Affirm That:
We hold our convictions upon a common belief in one Almighty God,
whose providence the Filipino nation implores
in its duly ordained Constitution.
We hold these truths to be self-evident and sacred:
The dignity of the human person,
from the moment of conception
To the last breath of LIFE;
Human life is a sacred gift that man must nurture and protect;
Parental authority has the same origin
as life itself; it can neither be diminished or abolished by the State ;
The family is an autonomous social institution;
The rearing of children
is a natural and primary right and duty of parents,
and must be supported by the State;
Marriage is an inviolable social institution;
it provides the major legal support for the natural family.
It should be protected by the State.
The traditional family of
father, mother and children is the soil that nurtures humanity--
a humanity that understands its true purpose
and sense of life; the State has a stake in its
strength and solidarity.
Human freedom dignifies man when it is balanced
by the countervailing forces of faith and morality;
The natural and spontaneous freedom of man and woman
finds its noblest fulfillment in a permanent union
in marriage and generation of new life;
Every child has a right
to be nurtured in an atmosphere of morality and rectitude
for the enrichment and strengthening of his character.
We Confront:
A world that is divided from a common understanding
of what is right and wrong,
and has lost the will
to seek the truth;
The lowering of community standards
in governance, education,
media, art and entertainment,
through the steady onslaught of relativism
and extreme liberalism,
weakening man's ability to confront evil;
The denigration of marriage, children,
motherhood, and fidelity,
and the deliberate corruption
of the equality, differentiation, and
complimentarity of man and woman in marriage
and parenting;
The trivialization of academic excellence in education
and its misquided excursions towards
social re-engineering, culture shifts,
multi-ethics and radical individualism;
Laws and policies that weaken and destroy
family structures, institutionalize depopulation,
and tolerate deviant models
of social behavior that are
diametrically opposed to our
long held community standards;
Foreign ideologies and agendas that
defile and corrupt the Filipino soul;
In light of these values and principles, ANG PROLIFE confirms its active
engagement in the advocacy in defense of LIFE against all legislation and policies that seek to legalize or institutionalize, among others:
Abortion
Un-reproductive Health Rights
Divorce
Same-Sex Unions
Depopulation
Radical Feminism
Public Child Sex Education
Pornography
Euthanasia
--and instead, engage and challenge the proponents of “death” bills towards the
establishment of PROLIFE measures that will promote a culture of LIFE for generations to come, and in the process:
Regain and rebuild
A Filipino culture that recognizes and upholds
The dignity of the human person;
Reclaim the moral capital of our families,
So as to inspire the youth to live for
Noble ideals and aspirations;
Empower parents,
Families and communities
To be active and effective agents of peace;
Safeguard authentic human freedom,
According respect for authentic human rights;
Restore decency,
Morality and social responsibility
In public governance;
Inspire the Filipino youth to
Aspire for and pursue knowledge
Not as an end in itself
But as a means to realize and
Perfect their human dignity
Free from empty and false distractions;
Support policies that preserve
The gifts of the earth
For their responsible and procreative use
With due regard for our inter-generational responsibilities;
AND,
Act as a community with a formed conscience
Under the rule of law.
With these guiding values and principles, ANG PROLIFE intends to pursue the
following legislative objectives to:
* Legislate a MAGNA CARTA FOR FAMILIES with a system of registration and
accreditation of family associations and organizations to encourage their
participation in family-oriented community programs in the local government level.
* Legislate a FAMILY CRISIS DESK or LUPONG PAMPAMILYA in every
Barangay, to function as a Family Counseling and Welfare Desk.
* Legislate a PARENT EDUCATION SECONDARY SUPPORT PROGRAM in the
Barangay level, with parents teaching and helping parents.
* Legislate the creation of FAMILY FARM SCHOOLS in rural areas.
* Legislate a CHILD EDUCATION ACT with the objective of neutralizing and
dislodging the corruptive child education programs in Philippine schools;
* Legislate a YOUTH DESK in every Barangay, operated in partnership with
the Sangguniang Kabataan and family-oriented NGO’s.
* Legislate the empowerment of parents in the exercise of their inalienable
right and duty to provide for the moral education of their children,
granting parents the right to exclude their children from non-parental,
school-provided sex education programs, with parental undertaking for
home-schooling.
* Legislate the requirement of school administrators and teachers to disclose
to parents the content and method of family life education programs to
ensure healthy and moral human sexuality education.
* Legislate recognition and deference to conscience objections with respect
to a religious or moral convictions of all persons.
* Legislate INTERMEDIATE TECHNOLOGIES FOR DELIVERY to Rural Families.
* Legislate entrepreneurial education programs to benefit families of
Overseas Contract Workers.
* Legislate criminal sanctions against the manufacture, distribution,
prescription, or use of abortifacients and chemical preparations that
destroy (1) the LIFE of the unborn; (2) the woman’s reproductive gifts;
and (3) the woman’s physical, mental, psychological and emotional health.
* Legislate criminal sanctions against indecent and obscene transmissions in
radio, television, and the internet.
* Legislate amendments to further strengthen the MTRCB’s mandate,
particularly against pornography in television and movies.
* Legislate reforms in taxation and social welfare laws to ensure progressive
deductibility benefits to spouses who have children.
* Legislate a CITIZEN PROTECTION ACT to contain the illegal production and
possession of fire-arms.
* Legislate an OPEN INFORMATION FROM GOVERNMENT ACT with due regard
to the rights of every Filipino to demand information affecting public
interest and the common good.
All these, in order to establish a Government that will
EMBODY THE IDEALS AND ASPIRATIONS OF THE FILIPINO PEOPLE
and
RECLAIM THE CULTURE OF LIFE IN THE PHILIPPINES.
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