Why we should all support Reproductive Health (RH) bill in the Philippines. It is pro-life, pro-women, pro-poor and pro-progress. This is not abortion, it is a lie to equate RH to abortion. In fact, RH bill can help minimize the many illegal, immoral and tragic abortions happening nationwide every year!
I am disappointed by the delaying, obstructionist and other tactics of the anti-RH politicians in our House of Representatives and the Senate in the Philippines. These are some of the reasons why we should strongly and decisively support the RH bill in the Philippines NOW:
1. RH Bill is pro-life---The United Nations, World Health Organization, the Philippines' Department of Health and others have repeatedly said that the lives and health of numerous women and children are endangered by lack of adequate informations and options regarding family planning and reproductive health needs. Let us allow people not only access to life, but better quality of life too.\
The UN Population Fund, in a separate statement, said the Philippines was unlikely to achieve its millennium development goal of reducing maternal deaths by three quarters and providing universal access to reproductive health by 2015. It said it had “extensively studied” the proposed RH law which once passed could “vastly improve health and quality of life” in a country where a third of the population live on less than a dollar a day.
(Image below from lizashut.blogspot.com)
2. RH Bill is pro-women---I strongly believe that women should have the right to control their destiny, to have options regarding reproductive health based on their individual conscience and cultural/religious beliefs. Women should have the right to choose when to give birth and how many kids they want.
3. RH Bill is pro-poor---It is tragic that majority of people in our Philippine society do not have access to reproductive health options, services and informations just because they are poor, thus we have the phenomenon of the poor becoming increasingly and almost perpetually in the bondage of economic poverty with more kids than they could support and educate.
Responsible parenthood or family planning is beneficial to all people, let us allow the RH bill to give everyone in our society equal access to reproductive health.
(Image below from amocielo.com)
(Image below sourced from spot.ph)
I am disappointed by the delaying, obstructionist and other tactics of the anti-RH politicians in our House of Representatives and the Senate in the Philippines. These are some of the reasons why we should strongly and decisively support the RH bill in the Philippines NOW:
1. RH Bill is pro-life---The United Nations, World Health Organization, the Philippines' Department of Health and others have repeatedly said that the lives and health of numerous women and children are endangered by lack of adequate informations and options regarding family planning and reproductive health needs. Let us allow people not only access to life, but better quality of life too.\
The UN Population Fund, in a separate statement, said the Philippines was unlikely to achieve its millennium development goal of reducing maternal deaths by three quarters and providing universal access to reproductive health by 2015. It said it had “extensively studied” the proposed RH law which once passed could “vastly improve health and quality of life” in a country where a third of the population live on less than a dollar a day.
(Image below from lizashut.blogspot.com)
2. RH Bill is pro-women---I strongly believe that women should have the right to control their destiny, to have options regarding reproductive health based on their individual conscience and cultural/religious beliefs. Women should have the right to choose when to give birth and how many kids they want.
3. RH Bill is pro-poor---It is tragic that majority of people in our Philippine society do not have access to reproductive health options, services and informations just because they are poor, thus we have the phenomenon of the poor becoming increasingly and almost perpetually in the bondage of economic poverty with more kids than they could support and educate.
Responsible parenthood or family planning is beneficial to all people, let us allow the RH bill to give everyone in our society equal access to reproductive health.
(Image below from amocielo.com)
(Image below sourced from spot.ph)
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