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Transcript
00:00President Bongbong Marcos immediately vetoed the Senate Bill 1979 or Prevention of Adolescent Pregnancy Act of 2023
00:08when it passed through the Senate in the current version.
00:14I was shocked and I was appalled by some of the elements of that.
00:23You will teach four-year-olds how to masturbate.
00:27That every child has the right to try different sexualities.
00:37This is ridiculous. It is abhorrent.
00:40It is a travesty of what sexual and sex education should be to the children.
00:46President Marcos did not agree with the passage of the Comprehensive Sexuality Educational CSE
00:53that is part of the bill, especially since it is important for the youth to know their body
00:57and to explain to them the negative effects of early pregnancy and breastfeeding.
01:03He said that he will take care of some of its provisions.
01:06Senator Rizal Tiberios clarified that there is a provision in the bill that is not in the current version of what the President mentioned.
01:14He said that the bill only includes the anatomy of the body of the youth and the consequences of early pregnancy.
01:20We will continue to clarify in Malacanang where in the Senate Bill 1979, which was read by the President, the provisions he mentioned.

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