{"id":6474,"date":"2014-04-09T12:21:01","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T04:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=6474"},"modified":"2014-04-09T12:21:01","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T04:21:01","slug":"evangelical-churches-happy-with-sc-ruling-on-rh-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/04\/09\/evangelical-churches-happy-with-sc-ruling-on-rh-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Evangelical churches happy with SC ruling on RH law"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6475\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6475\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/1465324_3691323419042_592490150_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6475\" alt=\"Photo: Facebook Page of The Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/1465324_3691323419042_592490150_n.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/1465324_3691323419042_592490150_n.jpg 320w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/1465324_3691323419042_592490150_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/1465324_3691323419042_592490150_n-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6475\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Facebook Page of The Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An answered prayer.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches (PCEC) is undoubtedly happy with the decision of the Supreme Court (SC) to uphold the constitutionality of the Reproductive Health (RH) Law.<\/p>\n<p>On April 8, Tuesday, the SC declared the RH Law as constitutional, excluding some parts of Section 7 and 23.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview, Bishop Efraim Tendero, PCEC national director said, \u201cThis is answered prayer for us. A law on responsible parenthood and healthy family life will help contribute to having quality of life for the Filipinos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the law is pro poor, pro development and pro life.<\/p>\n<p>The PCEC is composed of over 30,000 evangelical congregations in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>On the contrary, Human Life International President Father Shenan Boquet is not so happy with the SC ruling, \u201cIt breaks my heart that this is happening in such a strongly pro-life and Catholic country that has thus far been able to resist legalized abortion,&#8221; Boquet said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe real \u2018losers\u2019 in this decision are not the pro-life groups or the Catholic Church \u2013 which have been demonized throughout the entire debate over this law \u2013 but the Filipino people and their life-loving culture. It is women and children and the basic institution of the family that will suffer because of the implementation of this law,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, April 7, supporters and opponents of RH law held separate vigils in Baguio City, anticipating the most awaited deliberation on the controversial law.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An answered prayer. The Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches (PCEC) is undoubtedly happy with the decision of the Supreme Court &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":6475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95],"tags":[1858,1906],"class_list":["post-6474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","tag-rh-law","tag-the-philippine-council-of-evangelical-churches","mauthors-katherine-marfal-teves","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}