Category: reproductive health
RH hurrahs! and a boo
the first HURRAH! is for dr. sylvia claudio, director of the u.p. center for women’s studies, who spoke up in congress at the 2nd deliberation of the house committee of population and family relations on the critical question of when … Continue reading
abortion
it’s something women don’t really talk about, even among themselves, but if one needs that kind of help, it’s not hard to find out where to go, depending on one’s paying capacity. there are crude back-alley operations (catheter style, the … Continue reading
media, priests & abortion
media is plural for mediocre, rene saguisag says in his manila times column on the same day that mark robert b. baldo in a letter to the inquirer editor decries the failure of media to level-up the public debate on … Continue reading
face off
At last! A president takes on the church, puts nation over religion, reason over dogma. Noy stands tall. Finally, Rizal’s battle is joined! Bernardo breaks free! — Satur Sulit
HOW MONA LISA DIED
Walden Bello Representative Edcel Lagman of Albay has a term for legislative measures that gain approval in a congressional committee yet never make it to a full floor debate owing to one reason or other. He calls them “Mona Lisa” … Continue reading
environment 8: population word war
THE POPULATION WORD WAR Junie Kalaw The raging word war between Catholic Church representatives and the indomitable secretary of health on the topic of condoms as a means of addressingour pressing population problem is turning NGOs red with frustration or … Continue reading
political chitchat
for the latest political tsismis i always make silip the tribune column of former senator ernie maceda a.k.a. mr. expose(y) who is also the spokesman of former president erap. no thanks to ping lacson’s disclosures, erap’s reelection bid might be … Continue reading
noli, loren, manny & the RH bill
congress reconvening today. sana matuloy ang promised testimony of scam & escape artist jocjoc bolante sa senado. lalo pa, lalo na, sana matuloy ang long-delayed showdown on the reproductive health bill sa konggreso. kung magkasabay, which one kaya will … Continue reading
7 of 10 pinoys favor, but gma will veto, RH bill
on the philippine daily inquirer’s “second front page” is a report on the latest social weather stations’ survey re the reproductive health (RH) bill. Majority of Filipinos across all areas and classes were in favor of the RH bill. Seventy-eight … Continue reading
manny villar vs. sex education?
thanks to whistlebloggers pete lacaba and john silva for calling attention to senate bill no. 2464 also known as the Anti-Obscenity and Pornography Act of 2008 now pending in the senate, which would violate the constitution’s tenets of freedom and … Continue reading
liars! liars! pants (& skirts) on fire!
it is clear naman to the informed public that the celibate bishops and priests plus fundamentalist preachers like mike velarde who insist that contraception is a kind of abortion and therefore evil are LYING, no ifs or buts about it. … Continue reading
poor women
habang di ako maka-decide kung alin ang uunahin kong alipustahin – gma’s damnable refusal to scrap VAT or the bishops’ criminal campaign to stop the reproductive health and population bills in congress – heto muna ang isang komentaryong lumabas today … Continue reading