3 Years

For fifteen years…

…Many Filipino legislators have tried to push the approval of laws to fund universal access to free contraception; all failed. The Catholic Church being its strongest opponent.

…The Catholic Church remains to be a strong influence in our country with over 80% of our countrymen attending the Catholic Mass regularly.

…Having no national law for reproductive health services, we’ve had no national plan to address reproductive health concerns of our countrymen. It’s all left to the LGU’s to help these people in need.

…Condoms have remained from 25 to 50 Philippine pesos, monetary inflation set aside. Far too expensive for the Filipino who's basic wage is 367 Philippine pesos.

…We’ve seen children on the streets abandoned by their hyper-virile fathers and ignorant mothers.* As of now, we've had no effective solution to help these children off the streets. 

In thirty years…

…Without reproductive health services, our population will rise up to 50%. Especially in one of the most crowded cities in the world, our capital city, Manila.

…More Filipinos will probably compete for jobs, government resources, and food leading to higher unemployment rate, national budget shortage, and national hunger with this surge in population.

…Catholic Church will pray for forgiveness having intercepted reproductive health services. Just like they pray today for the cessation of economic fluctuation, world hunger and wars.

…We’ll be seeing more children in the streets or perhaps, child laborers and prostitutes.

Or they can STOP interfering with our Reproductive Health Rights and in thirty years…

…Without reproductive health services, our population will rise up to 50%. Especially in one of the most crowded cities in the world, our capital city, Manila.

…More Filipinos will probably compete for jobs, government resources, and food leading to higher unemployment rate, national budget shortage, and national hunger with this surge in population.

…Catholic Church will pray they never should have intercepted contraception family planning education. Just like they pray now for the cessation of economic fluctuation, world hunger and wars.

…We’ll be seeing more children in the streets or perhaps, child laborers and prostitutes.

...None of this might happen.

*- no anti-feminist agenda intended.

19 Reproductive Health Opponents Bashes Again

A village in Ayala Alabang, Muntinlupa City ratified an ordinance penalizing any person who advertises, promotes, sells or distributes for free any kind of abortifacient.

Condom purchases are illegal without a doctor’s prescription. Village officials claim that abortifacients according to the ordinance including condoms, IUD’s and birth control pills “undermine the solidarity of families by promoting premarital sex, giving rise to more fatherless children, more single mothers, more poverty, and more abortions when the contraceptives fail to prevent conception, and by causing a decline of legitimate marriages.” In addition to this, health advocates in general are also prohibited in providing sex education to students without parental consent.

People who violate the village’s ordinance provisions will be fined as much as P5,000 for the first offense and more for subsequent offenses. Recurrent violators will be also imprisoned for not less than a month but not more than six months and will also be held civilly liable to the offended party.

Barangay chairman Alfred Xerez-Burgos, Jr.; Kagawad Joanna Caluglug, Alice Bacani, Maria Carmen Reyes, Ma. Soledad Tugade, Mariano Manas Jr., Apolinario delos Santos III, and Giancarlo Nazario; and Sangguniang Kabataan chairman Juan Enrico Parfan sanctioned this ordinance.

Barangay Ayala Alabang spokesperson Atty. Luis Sison cited Pharmacy Practice Regulation Act or Republic Act 5921 of 1969, which says that "no drug or chemical product or device capable of provoking abortion or preventing conception... shall be delivered or sold to any person without a proper prescription by a duly licensed physician."

Atty. Sison also said that the barangay council passed the ordinance because they wanted to be proactive in their pro-life stance. Saying that the "St. James the Great Parish was the one who became very active in fighting the passing into law of the RH (Reproductive Health) bill, and this movement in the parish gained momentum."

The barangay officials claim that they are setting a “good example” for other barangays to follow when what they just did is a classic example of abuse of authority by victimizing the people’s liberty in line with their religious interests.

These people are seriously missing the point of condom use which is to prevent unwanted pregnancy which in the end reduces the frequency illegal abortions. It is a basic principle of liberty that no one should be forcibly prevented from acting in any way he chooses provided his acts are not invasive of the free acts of others. And this ordinance violates both our constitutional and human rights concerning liberty and it is depressing that the legislature system is once again encumbered and corrupted by collectivism and secular morality.