COMFORTING HANDS. An elderly woman, (above photo) victim of the buhawi that struck Jagna, embraces Gov. Edgar Chatto during his visit distributing financial assistance to rebuild houses and ruined fishing boats.

WHY the deep silence of provincial legislators? What happened to the proposed Reproductive Health Ordinance as supposed local counterpart measure of the controversial RH Bill filed in Congress? Is the sound of silence inside the halls of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Bohol a calculated political tact as the election nears?

This silence was noticed after the church remained firm and steadfast in blocking the controversial ordinance. The church who packs hundred in thousands of voter-members maintains its stand and issued earlier a 10-point statement expressing its “strongest and most unequivocal objection” against the most “deplorable” RH Ordinance.

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