MANILA Philippines The Philippines where an average of 11 women a day die giving birth could lower its high maternal death rate by having a reproductive health policy a visiting United Nations delegation said on Friday.
The absence of a national reproductive health policy especially for the poorest is a vital concern said Brian Bowler boss of the delegation of six U.N. bodies.
However he noted that religious views had to be considered in setting national laws. The Philippines is a Catholic country and like such it has very strong principles and of course religion must be observed said Bowler who is Malawis permanent representative to the U.N.
See? Even others from the United Nations are saying that they are for the passing of the Reproductive Health Bill. Why are the people in the Philippines so persistent in the thought that they are better than everyone else even if they have nothing to show for it? They always have that mentality that even though other countries are progressing the Philippines is still the country that is right when it comes to ethics and decision making? It’s as if we’re taking pride at being left behind and because of that people are laughing at us behind our backs.
We argue that we are always right when it comes to ethical decisions even if we’re are alone when we make that choice. The problem here is that once you’re the only one who believes that you actions is ethical you become the unethical one. That is because ethics is determined by the majority and not the minority. It is sometimes also made by the authority and obviously we are not the authority. So when you actually look at it, we are the ones who are unethical because we choose to reject change and progress.
The Philippines has one of the Asias fasted-growing populations which is nearing 100 million people. It also has one of the regions highest rates of maternal deaths. The problem was particularly severe in Muslim communities on Mindanao peninsula where 320 mothers died per 100000 live births double the national average Bowler said.
Efforts to enact a law that would promote access to sex education and contraception since the 1990s have been blocked by the powerful Roman Catholic Church which opposes access to and information about contraception methods.
The problem here is that the church thinks that the world can be supposedly “saved” through prayers and songs. But the time for blind faith and misdirected trust has passed. Humans have reached the point where they are no longer controllable and have lost the ability to restrain ourselves from destroying their home. The irony here is we may be the only creatures that are capable of creating religion and love but we’re also the most destructive and malicious animals in the world. We brag about ethics and morality but we are also responsible for more than half of the bad thhings that happen to this planet and everything in it.
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