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[00:00]Senator Vincente Sotto's speech initially made headlines of very different reasons.
[00:06]He was speaking out against a bill promoting free birth control,
[00:09]a divisive subject in this strictly Catholic country.
[00:14]Sheeding tears, he said he believed that his baby son had died three decades ago
[00:19]his wife had been pregnant while taking the contraceptive pill.
[00:24]Pictures of his emotional address made the front pages of most newspapers.
[00:27]But soon after Mr Sotto gave his speech, a pro-birth control researcher discovered that a large chunk of it,
[00:35]the part where the senator gave evidence to back up his claim,
[00:39]came from a blog called the Healthy Home Econemist.
[00:41]The blogger, an American woman called Sarah Pope,who has no medical training,
[00:46]says she doesn't agree with Senator Sotto's position and claims that he twisted her words.
[00:51]The senator has responded to the growing online attacks against him by saying he's a victim of cyber-bullying.