{"id":5510,"date":"2013-08-14T15:28:48","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T07:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=5510"},"modified":"2013-08-14T15:28:48","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T07:28:48","slug":"up-close-and-personal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2013\/08\/14\/up-close-and-personal\/","title":{"rendered":"Up close and personal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dare I say that people this stupid reach the supreme court means that the best barristers are not worth their salt.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fixed positions?<br \/>\nIt was apparent, though, that many of the justices have made up their minds. And some of the justices no longer seemed interested as they left the session hall for extended periods.<br \/>\nAbad is the frontline RH law buster while Justices Teresita de Castro and Jose Perez look like a back-up duo although they are civil and far less strident.<br \/>\nSince the third round of oral arguments, when Solicitor General Francis Jardeleza opened the arguments for the RH law, Abad never seemed satisfied with any of the answers of the pro-RH law counsels. He is totally against the law because, mainly, it supposedly allows abortifacients and it opens the floodgates to promiscuity by promoting contraceptives which is equal to encouraging \u201csex without responsibility\u201d and requiring public schools to conduct sex education.<br \/>\nAbad has the tendency to reduce issues to absurd levels. Here\u2019s an example. Abad told Cayetano: \u201cYour solution to 5,000 maternal deaths a year is to provide IUDs to 23 million women of childbearing age and put them at risk because IUDs have a high possibility of causing cancer\u2026So this is your answer?\u201d He then added that his first wife died of cancer.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rappler.com\/thought-leaders\/36375-vitug-rh-up-close-and-personal\">Up close and personal<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dare I say that people this stupid reach the supreme court means that the best barristers are not worth their salt. Fixed positions? It was apparent, though, that many of the justices have made up their minds. And some of the justices no longer seemed interested as they left the session hall for extended periods. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2013\/08\/14\/up-close-and-personal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Up close and personal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philippines","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}