condom

 

To use or not to use?

The answer of course is up to the couples, or individuals who will decide whether to use condoms or other artificial means as contraception. Natural contraception is also an option couples or women could utilize.

But at the end of the day, the issue is reproductive and health rights.

Filipinos, like other humans, have the right to protect themselves not only from unwanted pregnancies but from acquiring sexually transmitted diseases. Filipinos must be given the tools to enjoy their reproductive rights in a healthy environment.

Because, whether the Catholic Church agree or not, love making or sex is being arranged, accomplished, concluded, availed, served and enjoyed or otherwise every second of the day or night in this country and in most parts of the world inhabited by humans.

Like food, water, and shelter which the government must ensure are affordable to most of its citizens to protect their rights to a decent living, the government must ensure that Filipinos' reproductive and health rights are secured whether they are Catholics or not.

This brings us to the question why the Catholic Church is eagerly fighting the passage the Responsible Parenthood bill, which would provide reproductive and health education to millions of Filipinos.

The main reason is of course not political but theological. The church believes that the act of sex itself creates life and not the merging of the sperm to the egg cell.

But the Catholic church is using their political clout to stop the passage of the bill into law as the Church  try to push its theological agenda in a country where the Catholics maybe the majority but not the only faith that is being practiced.

I believe that the Church is wrong when it tries to shove its archaic theology into our society. Let the people decide and the government provides the necessary tools in ensuring every Filipinos' reproductive and health rights.

Wala lang.