Senate Deputy Minority Leader Risa Hontiveros files a substitute bill amending the contentious provisions of Senate Bill 1979 or the Prevention of Adolescent Pregnancy Act on Wednesday, January 22, after at least seven senators withdrew their support for the bill.
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00:00Senate Deputy Minority Leader Risa Ontiveros filed a substitute bill amending the contentious provisions of Senate Bill 1979 or the Prevention of Adolescent Pregnancy Act on Wednesday, January 22.
00:12This after at least seven senators withdrew their support for the bill, which includes a provision for mandatory comprehensive sexuality education, or CSE, in schools.
00:21The substitute bill revamps a section on age and development-appropriate CSE, notably removing that CSE will be guided by international standards.
00:29This amid backlash from religious groups.
00:32Senators Nancy Binay, J.V. Ejercito, Cynthia Villar, Bong Go, Senate President Pro Tempore Jingo Estrada, and Loren Legarda request to have their signatures removed from the bill, which had been previously signed by 19 senators.
00:45The bill sparked controversy nearly two years after it was filed, following a video released by the National Coalition for the Family and the Constitution.
00:54The coalition claims the bill's provision for comprehensive sexuality education will align with European standards.
01:00President Ferdinand Marx Jr. voiced concerns, saying he would veto the bill if passed.
01:05Senator Risa Ontiveros, the bill's principal author, rejects the misinformation, emphasizing the word masturbation does not appear in the bill.
01:13CSE contains the very same things you support—teaching kids anatomy, the consequences of early pregnancy.
01:21Yan po ang ating ding isinusulong.
01:24I am willing to accept amendments to refine the bill so we can steer it to passage.