I know I have already stated my personal view and opinion regarding the topic of RH Bill but I have a little more something to say before we move on. In the previous blog entry, I only mentioned why I am pro-RH Bill. In this entry however, I would like to state why I think more people should support the bill and why it should be passed as a law. From my perspective, a lot of people are either pro or against the RH Bill without actually fully understanding what it is really about. Some of them chose a side because that is what their friends or the people they know chose and some of them are truly siding with the Catholic Church. I hope that Filipinos, like me, would fully read and understand everything written in the RH Bill before they decide whether they are with it or against it.
From what you have probably gathered from my previous blog entry already, I am pro-RH Bill. I believe in the provisions written in it and I believe it will help alleviate overpopulation in the country. The many who are also pro-RH Bill believe in the same thing among others. As for those who are against it, they do not see this for they immediately think that by passing the RH Bill the people will commit abortion. That by using the contraceptives stated in the bill will mean and end to a life. My take on this is why will the use of contraceptive be an end to a life when the life of a child has not even started yet. I mean how can there be an end when there is no beginning to even begin with. This is what I mean when I said some people who are against the RH Bill are making these false accusations without even actually reading and understanding the RH Bill.
As everyone knows, the Catholic Church is the number one group that is against the RH Bill. The things I am about to say should not probably be out there but I felt a need to really say it. The Church is a very patriarchal community, with males obviously leading it. Males fill up all the top positions in this community and females are merely in the background. I know they are avid supporters of equality but where is equality in that? I guess what I am trying to say is by not passing the RH Bill, women do not actually have a choice to either bear a child or not. No one wants abortion but by not using contraceptives to prevent the conception of a child mean that the woman will have no choice but to actually give birth to a child. From what I see, that is just all kinds of discrimination against women. Back to the Church being patriarchal, they [the male leaders of the church] will never experience child bearing like a woman does and so their decision is very biased and very one-sided.
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