Coxsackie-Athens: Secondary Health Education

In the Philippines, poverty reigns over 70% of the population. In that percentage, many women who conceive realize that raising a child on a low income home is nearly impossible. With numerous kids being born, a family can't make their way up in life, especially a community that still needs modernization.

Churches make it impossible for the bill to be passed. The Roman Catholic religion won't allow abortion, oral contraceptives,  or any form of birth control to be condoning the prevention of human life.

This article is directed towards women. The women in this country, along with their families have a choice taken from them. They are forced to continue to conceive children and remain too poor to put them through proper schooling or help them leave for a better life. I think women have a right to choose. Abortion may not be the most ethical decision, but oral contraceptives is a step in the right direction for families to make a decision to change their lives. 

The beginning of this artilcle talks about a Filipino woman who had 3 children who she never intended to have in the first place. While she was pregnant for each of them, she tried abortion and other anti-pregnancy techniques which turned out to be unsuccessful. Now, poor, and with 3 children to care for, it is a daily struggle for her and her husband to live happy lives because they have too many children to take care of. Since abortion is illegal in the Phillipines and birth control and other related services are only availible through private medical systems, who most cannot afford, it is a huge problem for those poor families that have too many kids to raise. In a survey from 2008, more than half of pregnancies in the Phillipines were unintended, 92 percent of them being a result from not using birth control. Plus, opposition from Roman Catholic Churches and other like organizations have supported and led to the defeat of reproductive health service bills in the Phillipine Congress over the last decade.

I think that these poor families deserve help for child support from the Phillipine government if no act can be passed to legalize abortion or to support those kind of health services. Even though I practice Roman Catholicism, I’m not a fan of its criticism of the use of birth control because it should be up to the couple about how many kids they want to have so they can remain economically stable and so they don’t overwhelm themselves. And it wouldn’t be fair for the children if they cannot live as happily and freely as other families because of the mistakes their parents made by having too many kids to handle. I really don’t take a side on the abortion dispute because it’s sometimes necessary on one hand but morally unjust on the other, so I currently remain neutral on that debate. Also with the world population continuously on the rise and predicted to get too high at some point, there is absolutely no need for a increase in overpopulated families, so birth control is something that has been getting far more popular and necessary in this society.

jina judilla had 3 childrew after her third one she promised herself that she will not have any more children. she can not afford another child. she can hardly pay for her three children to go to school. she tried three times to get an abortion by jumpin down the stairs, by drinking a concoction, and trying to take the abortion pill. there was a medical bill that made hospitals and other care working places must carry condoms and any other medical needs. they cancelled that bill. well in the USA it is not illegal to get an abortion but in the philipenes it is illeagal.