The RH Bill debate: Yes, this woman will rant

This entire hullabaloo over the RH Bill is so frustrating. What the antis need to realize is that women have as much right to their bodies, their reproductive and overall health and their LIVES as the next man does. This is one of those times that I regret the backwardness of the Catholic Church, choosing to turn a blind eye on reality and insisting on ideologies, as if they were, indeed, experts on both the former and the latter. That this certain throng would rather have women going through teenage pregnancies and the requisite failed marriages and broken lives which are to follow, would rather have women die in abortion clinics, would rather have an entire population of children going hungry,  would rather deny its youth of the education they rightfully deserve, would rather that sex be seen as a topic to be reserved for semi-conversations in whispers, that the very word "sex" itself be seen as taboo and, in the process, stripping it of its very dignity--is an appalling state of affairs. That we are a predominantly Catholic country would mean that a bill such as this would offend a lot of sensibilities; but for us to be deprived of the kind of education necessary for the elucidation of this certain topic means letting us even further down, shoving us into an even darker dark than what we are already finding ourselves in.

The whole thing spells further poverty for this country, the continuation of the on-going oppression of its women and more suffering for its children, spells the certainty of the elusiveness of progress.

The non-committals belong to an entirely different plane. Educate your people. If they weren't so in the dark, perhaps they'd find the backbone to speak.