00:00This is Senator Larissa Ondeveros of the new Panokalan Batas in Gils in Teenage Pregnancy.
00:05This is the report after some Senators approved her Panokala.
00:13The controversial Senate Bill No. 1979,
00:17on Prevention of Adolescent Pregnancy Act of 2023,
00:20on the left and right, section 6 of the Panokala
00:24that includes Comprehensive Sexuality Education or CSE
00:28must be standardized and must be implemented in public and private basic education institutions.
00:34And it must be integrated in the school curriculum
00:37that is guided by the Department of Education and International Standards.
00:42Because of the amendments to the bill,
00:43and following the return of the Senators to their signatures in the Committee Report,
00:47the Substitute Bill was adopted by Senator Larissa Ondeveros
00:51and the provision based on the International Standards was removed.
00:56And in the end, anyway, if the International Standards is only one of the guidelines,
01:01in the end, the buck stops in our Constitution of the Philippines.
01:06That's why it's important to change that in our Substitute Bill
01:10that Comprehensive Sexuality Education
01:13will only be given to adolescents from 10 years old up to or above.
01:19Ondeveros also answered some of her bills from her fellow Senators.
01:24My point is that the title of the bill is confusing.
01:30Preventing Teenage Pregnancy.
01:32There are many groups of people in the world
01:38who don't approve of this title.
01:41We should prevent teenage pregnancy.
01:44But if you read the whole bill,
01:47they say the devil is in the details.
01:51The devil is also in accurate representation of the work of our colleagues.
02:00The real culprit is those who made fake news against the bill.
02:07The real culprits are those who spread disinformation
02:12and threatened our countrymen.
02:15President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.
02:17was the first to issue a warning to the Constitutional Court.
02:20He said he needs to read the Substitute Bill first.
02:24After the Senators returned their signatures to the Committee Report,
02:28will the bill return to the committee level?
02:31It depends on how many.
02:33It depends on how many and on the majority based on the committee.
02:37And it needs to be examined because sometimes there are joint committees.
02:41Yes, on the Substitute Bill.
02:44But I haven't read the Letters of Withdrawal and how many.
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