Taking a stand on RH

Having borne two children of my own and having struggled to do my part in raising a family while practicing my profession in public health and avidly pursuing my social and political causes, I submit that I may have something worthwhile to say on the controversy over the reproductive health bill.

Ill health, debilitation, and untimely deaths due to preventable and curable diseases are undoubtedly an added bane on the masses, men and women alike. Women, however, by virtue of their reproductive functions, their traditional role as the family’s main caregiver, and, more and more, as breadwinners themselves, carry distinct and additional burdens....