The prolife groups combining the Bacolod diocese and an ecumenical grouping under the Citizen’s Alliance for the Protection of Human Life (CAPHL), triggered a controversy after its chairman, lawyer Lyndon Caña, was quoted as saying in national news media outlets that they may stage civil disobedience campaigns by not paying their taxes if the bill passes muster in Congress.

But Caña’s statement was, at this early stage, his own view on the issue and had not yet collectively been agreed-upon by the CAPHL council.

The Bacolod diocese and the CAPHL council in a recent meeting at the bishop’s house agreed to step up their educational and protest actions against the RH bill now pending in the House of Representatives.

Fr. Greg Patiño, CAPHL secretary-general, said in the first week of June they are sponsoring a series of fora for teachers and students of Catholic educational institutions and members of the clergy in the Bacolod diocese.

They are also scheduling this month another massive rally against the RH bill as the debate in the House gets hotter.  Voting on the bill is presumably at the end of the year.  So far, four out of the seven congressmen in the province have indicated that they will vote against the bill.

Invited guest speaker during the June forum will be Dr. Ellie Somera, an 80-year-old Filipino physician who once worked with the United Nations and who attended the Cairo Conference on Reproductive Health and Population. Somera possesses information, some confidential, on the population program which is being implemented worldwide.  Upon learning of what she said were deleterious effects of the program being forced upon Third- World nations most especially, Somera, who is also a devout Catholic, resigned from the UN.