My stand about the RH Bill

Whenever I see posts on Facebook about how a friend despise the Reproductive Health (RH) Bill I simply smile and restrain myself on commenting on that status. I mean we all have the privilege to post whatever we want so I spare him. So instead, I will enumerate some of the key points of most of that dude’s status and give my opinion on it.

1. 1.       It is anti-life.

-          We all know that family planning and contraceptives are major parts of this bill. People might misunderstood that by using such, we tend to kill the unborn. That’s a major misconception. We are not “killing” the unborn simply because there is no baby to kill yet. You know what’s killing? It’s when a baby’s brought into this world knowing that we cannot provide him with a proper attention, values, health, and education. With proper family planning, we tend to give life to a baby who is expected, and thus supplied with sufficient need. I saw a kid one morning who is wearing nothing but dirt and sweat, walking with his bare feet, belly-blotted, while holding chicha. I thought to myself, “What a healthy breakfast that is! Should your parents be more educated on having a family, siguro you’re gonna love life even more”. What I’m saying is, RH Bill is never an anti-life,it is more of a pro-superior-life.

1. 2.       Since contraceptives are readily available, women will be used as toys.

-          Another highlight of the RH Bill is for local hospitals to have a supply of contraceptives for public which they say will be a start of an era where women will be treated as sex toys. Actually, the first time this sunk in, my first reaction was: Duh! Face it! People will do sex whether contraceptives are available or not! It’s a matter of doing it safe or otherwise! Part of being educated to RH not solely includes sexual rights but others as well, such as rights of women and infants, men’s obligation toward a healthy family, to name a few. People, this bill will EDUCATE us not HERMAPHRODITICALLY SUPPORT us.

1. 3.       People who support MUST be excommunicated.

-          Anti-RH wants to excommunicate our President for supporting the said bill so please, with all my heart, excommunicate me too! I think being the only Catholic country in Asia is cool when I was like ten. But as I aged, I think that is a downturn. Don’t get me wrong, the church is a well-respected institution but them being so dominant over our state is quite a pain. I think the church’s point on this is quite out-dated and unrealistic. This bill targets the State’s development even though we won’t feel it for another decade. But still, we have to start NOW. All I want is a full, applicable, comprehensive and obvious sense of the phrase, “Separation of Church and State”.

1. 4.       I want to have three kids but having so will be punishable by law.

-          I guess he does not read the full text of the bill yet. See? That’s why we have to be educated! And yes I’m talking about the contents of the bill and not the bill itself yet. The bill ENCOURAGES us to have a two-child family. That number is not a lucky guess, it is backed by statistics, that it is ideal for a family to have two kids. Again, the Bill ENCOURAGES us and not ORDERS us to have two kids! Opposing the said ENCOURAGEMENT does not have any penalty clause or something. Lesson learned, read and know first! Personally, I want to have two boys and a girl as my well-planned family.

1. 5.       It is a preface to the legality of abortion.

-          Based on the thread of one particular status, he said, “Once that law’s enacted, the next thing we have to expect is the legality of abortion. Putting a crime to legality!” Once again, he failed to understand the bill. The RH Bill does not/will not support abortion. Although one of the provisions of the bill is to attend to a woman’s post-abortion problems, but it does not mean that it supports the abortion, the provision is there for the protection of woman’s life. It’s not like once a woman’s guilty of abortion and upon being so, we have to take her for granted right? This bill is realistically open to the fact that we cannot STOP abortionist on doing their crime, but we will help their victims openhandedly. Contraceptives prevent unwanted pregnancy,needless to say,prevents abortion as well. Again, this bill does not by any means a start of the legality of abortion.

To sum it all up, YES! (For some obvious reasons)  I’m a proud purple warrior :)