At about age 10, my daughter brought up a memory from her storied past. “Remember the time, when I was about six, I had a fever and you were supposed to bring me to the doctor?” she said one morning without warning or preparation (for me).
What does it mean to be “proabortion”? It means to favor abortion as the primary means of terminating or avoiding a pregnancy, to favor it above contraception, which seeks to prevent and protect against an unwanted or mistimed pregnancy.
Calling for the passage of the reproductive health (RH) bill at the soonest time possible, Sen. Pia Cayetano accused its critics of closing their eyes to the “urgent material need” for such legislation. “They refuse to lift a finger to help alleviate the condition of Filipino mothers despite the alarming rise in maternal deaths,” said [...]
World Population Day is being observed tomorrow, July 11, with the theme “universal access to reproductive health services.”
My stepdaughter is currently journeying her way to the dark and dirty world of peer pressure. It’s quite normal as she’s already 13 and is in first year high school. Every now and then she’s been telling me about her classmates having boyfriends and wearing makeup, and how does it feel like to have some [...]
RINA DAVID stated in her May 8 column (“What a mom wants”): “I still support a woman’s right to have options including the option of abortion. Motherhood is a choice, and given the challenges, we shouldn’t be forcing women to be mothers when they don’t think they’ll be good at it—or good mothers to so [...]
