New HLI Documentary: “The Philippines: Preserving a Culture of Life”

Human Life International (HLI)has produced a new documentary highlighting the fight for life in the Philippines. The documentary "underscores one of the most dramatic social and political struggles for life and family in the world." The film is already in heavy rotation on EWTN in the Philippines, and will debut in the United States and Canada on EWTN this week.
It looks at debate over the anti-life Reproductive Health (RH) Bill in the Philippine legislature & how Pro-Life leaders are working to keep it from passing. It includes interviews with Filipino pro-lifers leading the charge against the RH Bill. Among those interviewed are Archbishop of Cebu Jose Palma, Philippine Congressman Dr. Anthony Golez, HLI Philippines Director Dr. Rene Bullecer & Dr. Ligaya Acosta, a former pro-abortion Philippine Department of Health manager who is now HLI’s Regional Director for Asia & Oceania.
Speaking of the importance of this documentary Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro-Carambula, interim president of HLI, had this to say: “Right now, proponents of the anti-life RH Bill are still a few votes short of achieving their deadly goal. Our wish is that this documentary will inspire not only Filipinos, but pro-lifers around the world, to stand with our brothers and sisters in the Philippines against the culture of death.”
Stephen Phelan, executive producer of the documentary & director of communications for HLI added: “It is profoundly inspiring to hear everyday Filipinos, as well as leaders from the political realm and the Catholic Church talk about how they have fought off this intrusive, anti-life and anti-family bill in its different forms for twelve years.”
He went on to say: “It is in some ways reminiscent of the struggle over health care in [the United States] – a detached political elite continues to force through a bill that the people have said time and again that they don’t want. The bill’s backers use deceptive language, they are funded by hundreds of millions of dollars from outside the Philippines, and they are attempting to attack and divide the Catholic Church.
Everyone must understand what is going on in the Philippines, and how we are all bound in the struggle for life and family.”
The program is scheduled to run on EWTN on 25 August at 1:30 PM & 26 August at 9:00 PM EDT.


Note: according to the story, as well as EWTN's website, it was supposed to premiere on EWTN at 3:30 am EDT(2:30 CDT)but for some reason it didn't run. The EWTH schedule does show the other 2 times.
Source: “The Philippines: Preserving a Culture of Life” Documentary Debuts on EWTN This Week