Biggest Dilemma

There are 93 million Filipinos.


Thirty out of One Hundred Filipinos live with wages below the minimum level.


These families live in congested, unsanitary and unhygienic places not only in the metro but the farthest regions of the country.


The children, consisting of the largest number in the household barely goes to school, some, if not, most of them help out their parents through scavenging garbage in the dump sites, collecting garbage from house to house, begging along sidewalks and open establishments and handing out letters to masses in buses and jeeps.  


Then why are people still not open to the idea of the Reproductive Health Bill?


Are we that blind to see that the country is hastily falling in a pit of no return? 


Of death? 


Of tumultuous consequences?


For years, we have seen how the population ballooned to enormous proportions, how the statistics massively increased in numbers, how the Filipinos strive just to get by a meal.


Yet, failure to notice, or even failure to acknowledge the facts is a shameful, shameful idea.


The Reproductive Health Bill's main principle is to promote and educate the people about medically and legally safe methods of natural and artificial family planning. It never intended to make way for abortion, nor make way for anti-family and more importantly, never intended to make way for anti-life.


However, no matter how you illustrate, elaborate, even reiterate these ideas, they still would not open up their minds and hearts. And it gets really frustrating up to a point that people need to stand up and fight for what might be for a better future of our over-populated country.


For the sake of the betterment of this country, we wish not to place blame on these people who are trying their best to halt and worse, ex-communicate people who are just doing what they positively know would help each and everyone - fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, illiterates, literates, rich, middle-class, poor, poverty-stricken families, well-off families, blue-collared workers, white-collared workers, sex workers, Christians, Muslims, atheists, agnostics, ethnic tribes, people with vocational degrees, people with college diplomas, people with graduate degrees, cigarette vendors, sampaguita vendors, women with a single child, women with multiple children, primipara's, multipara's, the ligated ones, women who are thinking of ligation, men who need to control the size of their families, couples who are just starting to build one   - literally, everyone. For reproductive health affects even those still in conception.


Responsibility, awareness and understanding are key words that we have to learn to live by. These would be our weapons of choice to make the Filipino lives better in any way we can. Health Education through spreading it will greatly help and not only are you helping people who do not have an idea on raising families and providing adequate support but you are also helping yourself. Think about it, you can learn a multitude of methods, techniques, ways, strategies on the concept of Family Planning plus learning about  people's different lives can be quite interesting: why they chose to live like that, what drove them to be like that, how does it feel to be like that? These questions are not judgmental, they can be applied to every single human creature.


We are here to make a difference, please, stand up and make a good difference.