The Reproductive Health Bill
The Reproductive Health Bill or the RH Bill is one of the bills the Philippines has been aiming to pass. It will help the Filipinos know about the methods and informations about controlling birth and family planning. Today, Many of the bill passers and the Church are having a debate on it. In the Philippines the goal of the reproductive health bill is to provide information on the following : Parenting, Health, Population and Others. Many people don’t agree with this bill because they don’t understand how it will work and to be frank, I read about it, but I’m not really sure what it is about because they keep on changing the policies included in it. One thing I know about it is that birth control pills or the BCPs will be distributed to families, which will help them THINK if they are willing to take it or not. So practically, The families will not be forced to take it, but they have the choice if they are WILLING to use the BCPs and Contraceptives.
The Reproductive Health Bill was proposed years ago and I believe that they would not pass such bill if the Philippines did not need any assistance from the government with family planning and population growth. To tell you the truth I am still researching about the bill and I don’t want to post anything I am not sure of.
I used to teach in areas where people do not have enough money to attend classes and they appreciate us teaching them about family planning. One of the people I taught told me that if we did not teach them about family planning they would still hold on to their notion that more kids will bring them more money. I told them that it can happen. It might happen. But most of the times having more kids would just give them more debt, especially when it comes to them, feeding their families and sending them to school. I told them that having more family members will just give them more expenses. She understood what I said and she would consider what I told her. She said after the lecture that, kids in their location were being sold, I asked her how much, she said. One time, her neighbor offered her son to her for 500 pesos. What I told her was, How could somoene sell her kid? What if one day, since they don’t have proper documents, the parent will just ask for the kid. What would she do? I Told her, I don’t have any background on adoption and such, but I’m pretty sure this is not legal.
The church has been critizing the bill in many ways, for one. I heard this debate in the television wherein the church is saying that children ages 10 or those in the puberty age should not be taught about sex. Sex education will just open there eyes to SEX. But from what I understand, The RH bill will not teach the kids on how to use condoms or have sex, but educate them in a way that they will know that if they do such things, things might happen. Another thing, I didn’t like about with the arguments of the church is that, they threathen to excommunicate people (including the President) Benigno Aquino III if he supported such bill.
Why do we need such bill? If ever I did not read about the RH Bill, I would think that we need it to control the oozing amount of kids being born everyday. I believe that we need to lessen (not stop) the population from growing because of the number of jobs available. It is not enough. Also, Most of the families with enormous amounts of children live in the slums and every year numbers of children in the public schools are going crazy. The numbers of chairs and tables are not enough. The books are being shared by 3 or 4 children, and that shouldn’t be. The bill would help filipino families control the number of children being born and this can help slowly eliminate poverty, if not eliminate then at least lessen it. If ever the bill will be passed, the rapid population growth in the philippines will lessen, which will improve the quality of life present in our country.
Population Growth has been always the reason for why our economy is like this. There is poverty. Children in the philippines are not educated well. If we travel abroad, people will think that we are there for the dirty jobs. How can we accept this? If we go to Hong Kong, we will be labelled instantly as workers not travellers. Racism had spread as if we were taking over the world.
According to the House Bill. The Senate Bill 2378 define the RH Bil as “Reproductive Health Care - refers to the state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, in all matters relating to the reproductive system and to its functions and processes. This implies that people are able to have a satisfying and safe sex life, that they have the capability to reproduce and the freedom to decide if, when and how often to do so, provided that these are not against the law. This further implies that women and men attain equal relationships in matters related to sexual relations and reproduction”
The bill is not forcing people to do what the church is telling us. I believe that if the RH bill is enforced in the country, many would know how it can help us. Although, I am Pro it, There are many things that I do not like in the bill, and I would discuss it on my other entries. I believe it is right to understand first what the pros and cons of the bill to take a side. Right now I believe I am for it. But lets see, I might change my mind after knowing more about it.
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