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UP economists ask Church to soften population stand.
(From Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Byline: Blanche S. Rivera
THE COUNTRY'S top economists have called on the Catholic Church hierarchy to adopt a "more tolerant and humane" stance on the need for a national population policy for the sake of the poor who are suffering because of their large family sizes.
In a paper titled "Population and Poverty: The Real Score," 17 economists from the University of the Philippines School of Economics said the Catholic clergy in the country should allow families to choose their preferred family planning method, consistent with the Second Vatican Council's teaching that the final arbiter of moral decisions is one's informed and responsible conscience.
The economists, the same group that warned of a fiscal crisis in the country, said the natural family planning (NFP) method being promoted by the Catholic Church was "too complicated and cumbersome and requires extraordinary discipline."
Extraordinary discipline
"A more humane stance would tolerate the use of modern and more effective methods of family planning, besides NFP, provided they do not result in abortion," the economists said.
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