TACLOBAN CITY – “Our objective is for the bill to reach the deliberation level because it will be inconsistent for us if the members of Congress will not discuss this on the floor,” said Akbayan Representative Kaka Bag-ao who was among the co-authors of the controversial Reproductive Health bill.
“This bill needs to be discussed in order to clarify all the issues thrown against it,” Bag-ao added.
Bag-ao clarified that said bill will not legalize abortion or promiscuity of adolescent but rather of age appropriate sexuality education.
“They need to learn on how to protect and take care of themselves and to distinguish on what is considered as abuse on their body,” she added.
“If the youth learns about this, this will enlighten them and decide not to engage into early sexual experimentation, because they become aware on what are the effects of engaging into such activity at early age,” she added.
Bag-ao added that aside from teaching awareness among adolescent children, the bill also ensure that there will be midwives in every barangay who will supervise the health needs of women especially pregnant women.
She added that the bill also ensure that all barangay health workers will have an appropriate training to provide basic and emergency obstetric care and to ensure that everyone has the proper knowledge on different methods of family planning.
“It is a bill of choice on what kind of family planning method will a woman and her partner will use on what is available.That is what the bill is all about,” Bag-ao stressed.
These are the reasons why they wanted to have said bill reach the deliberation process in the Congress in order for their fellow representatives to understand the real essence of the bill and not to rely on the accusation that are baseless, according to Bag-ao.
“If this bill reaches the plenary we are confident and we are hoping that they will understand what the bill really seeks,” she added. (Roel Amazona)
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