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Challenge to Philippine RH Law: Going beyond population control

The experience of India may be a case in point in warning all the poor women and men in the Philippines that such step is just a beginning in policy changes that may hamper gender equality and women empowerment. It requires people’s vigilance as to remind us of India’s case. India has been a population control/reproductive health project of the USA and Europe where these countries take history of policies along population control for the global consumption.

Bulatlat Contributors | Jan 16, 2013

Reproductive health, a question of women’s rights

By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com The debate over the proposed Reproductive Health Bill is raging in Congress. The most vocal opposition to the RH bill comes from the Catholic Church. It has been using the pulpit and has rallied church organizations to block the...

Benjie Oliveros | Sep 7, 2012

De La Salle professors support RH bill, call for openness

By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Just when Interaksyon.com published an interview with the late former archbishop of Milan and papal candidate Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini who said that the Catholic Church was "200 years out of date," De La Salle...

Ina Alleco Silverio | Sep 5, 2012

Non-Catholic groups recognize value of RH bill to maternal health

By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Not all religious leaders are against the controversial Reproductive Health (RH) bill. A leader of the Protestant Church in Davao City has said that the RH Bill is not evil because it aims to do good for the Filipino...

Ina Alleco Silverio | Aug 10, 2012

Gabriela prepares final push for RH Bill in Congress

By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
"The RH bill is about women's access to healthcare, the right to informed choice. This is not an issue of population control or a question of religion or faith. Lawmakers, as well as the rest of the Filipino people, should focus on the state of women and children’s 'un-health', and this should be the primary consideration when lawmakers cast their vote to end debates and interpellation on August 7.” – Rep. Luz Ilagan, Gabriela Women’s party

Ina Alleco Silverio | Aug 4, 2012

‘Kitchen knife caesarean’ shows women’s ‘un-health’ – Gabriela

By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
"The Aquino government is killing poor Filipino women with its failure to deliver the much needed pro-poor and comprehensive health care services to women." – Gabriela

Ina Alleco Silverio | Jul 11, 2012

Glaring statistics prove need for urgently passing RH Bill

By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – The House of Representatives and the Senate is set to take a recess this week for the Holy Week break. Sessions will resume on May 7. There are speculations that if the impeachment process has been completed by then, the...

Janess Ann J. Ellao | Mar 21, 2012

Population control, US and Aquino governments’ hidden agenda – Gabriela

By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“Population control defeats the rights-based, health-based, pro-poor characteristics of the RH Bill. As we call for the removal of population control provisions in the RH bill, the retention of pro-poor provisions lifted from Gabriela’s Comprehensive RH bill is non-negotiable.” – GWP Rep. Luz Ilagan

Ina Alleco Silverio | Sep 26, 2011

Luis V. Teodoro | Palliatives

By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld AN appeal based on liberation theology is among the least likely to convince the mostly conservative bishops of the Catholic Church to end their campaign against the Reproductive Health bills now pending in Congress....

Bulatlat Contributors | Aug 25, 2011

Women Will Never Be at the Losing End of Fight for Pro-Poor and Comprehensive Health Care (PR)

NEWS RELEASE JUNE 10, 2011 "As Congress closes for recess, I call on my fellow congressmen to go to their constituencies and listen to the marginalized women as they voice out their problems with access to comprehensive reproductive health care. With this simple...

Press Releases | Jun 11, 2011

‘Take population control out of RH bill’ – Gabriela

By ANNE MARXZE D.UMIL
“The RH bill has many positive provisions that may be put to waste if the population control menace continues to overshadow the bill’s essence. As we work to strengthen the public and fellow legislators’ appreciation of such good provisions, we shall nonetheless refuse to make the RH bill a platform for population control.

Anne Marxze Umil | Jun 3, 2011

Luis V. Teodoro | Forbidden fruit

By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld THANKS TO some priests and bishops of the Catholic Church, and with considerable help from the media, the debate on the consolidated Reproductive Health bill (House Bill 4244) pending in the House of Representatives...

Bulatlat Contributors | Jun 2, 2011

Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Taking a stand on RH

By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld Having borne two children of my own and having struggled to do my part in raising a family while practicing my profession in the field of public health and avidly pursuing my social and political causes, I submit...

Bulatlat Contributors | May 27, 2011

Six month old baby Airish is an argument for the passage of the RH bill

By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Airish has meningocele, meaning she has a growth next to her small head that is much bigger in circumference. If only her mother knew that she had to take a P6.00 tablet of folic acid or folate per day during her pregnancy, Airish could have been spared from having meningocele.

Ina Alleco Silverio | May 25, 2011

Philippines: Gays hit Pacmom over transgender slur, reproductive health (PR)

21 May 2011 NEWS RELEASE GAY and transgender rights activists cried foul at the remarks made by celebrity mom Ms. Dionisia Pacquiao in her spat with Senator Miriam Santiago over the controversial reproductive health bill. Disclaimer | What you are reading is either...

Press Releases | May 23, 2011

Back Story: Women’s voice absent in RH bill debate

The debate over the reproductive health bill is heating up. Absence in the debate is the voice of women who would be greatly affected by the rejection or enactment of a reproductive health bill.

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Bulatlat Staff | May 21, 2011

Salungguhit: RH Bill, a debate between men?

RH Bill, a debate between men?

Bulatlat Contributors | May 21, 2011

Women speak in support of reproductive health bill

By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
“We urge the Catholic community to actively participate in crafting a national policy on women’s reproductive health on the framework that full access to healthcare services is a universally recognized right and that population control is never to blame for and should not be a panacea to the country’s worsening poverty.” Gabriela Women's Party Rep. Luzviminda Ilagan.

Anne Marxze Umil | May 13, 2011

Bataan barangays’ local RH ordinance is dangerous—GABRIELA

NEWS RELEASE 28 March 2011 MANILA -- Women’s group GABRIELA slams the enactment of an ordinance in seven barangays of Bataan that prohibits sale of contraceptives and allows only Catholic Church approved “natural” family planning methods, calling it “dangerous and...

Press Releases | Mar 28, 2011

Gabriela Pushes for Enactment of Comprehensive Reproductive Health Bill

By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Data from the Gabriela Women’s Party show that there is one death every two hours due to complications during pregnancy. Eleven women are dying everyday. Gabriela's landmark bill can provide much needed relief to poverty-stricken women and their families by ensuring full access to health services.

Anne Marxze Umil | May 17, 2011

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