Woman solon throws support behind RH bill approval
By Arlie O. Calalo 09/25/2011Alarmed by many women who are either battered or abused, Malabon City Rep. Jaye Lacson-Noel has openly thrown her support to the approval of the controversial Reproductive Health (RH) bill, a move which she described as a “very personal crusade.”
“I have accommodated all opinions for and against the RH bill, attended marathon hearings and plenary debates, but my decision to support the bill comes from my day-to-day discussions with my constituents, based on their grim, violent and often pathetic realities on the ground, about their specific and immediate needs for a comprehensive RH law,” Lacson-Noel said in statement e-mailed to Tribune.
In a huddle with members of the Camanava Press at her district office, the wife of An-Waray Party-list Rep. Bem Noel revealed that the number of cases of battered and abused women that came into her knowledge, though they did not necessarily originate in the city, has made her decide to push the immediate passage of RH bill.
In fact, Lacson-Noel said she is in the process of creating her own Malabon database on the number of unwanted pregnancies, pre- and post-natal challenges and accidents and other records related to women, especially those that reside in her district..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/metro/20110925met3.html
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ang gawin mo--kasi baka hindi ma.aprubahan ang RH bill dahil malakas ang simbahan--pag ganyan ang asawa mo ay kasuhan mo ng MARITAL RAPE.
"She cited harsh realities coming from women, including one with six children but cannot stop getting pregnant because the husband insists it is his right; from mothers who would rather the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) take away their children because they do not know what to do with them anymore, and from wives who get beaten every time they refuse sex for fear of another unwanted pregnancy."
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