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Gabriela Women’s Party Representatives Luz Ilagan and Emmi de Jesus expressed today their disappointment at the direction that deliberations on the Reproductive Health Bill are taking.

“We are wary that a population control measure is in the works. The discussions and debates on the Reproductive Health Bill are focusing less on ensuring the women and children’s access to free healthcare services and more on meeting demographic targets and ensuring women’s access to contraceptives rather than their full access to basic healthcare services,” said Rep. Luz Ilagan.  read more »

"Two years into the Aquino administration, we have not seen any significant improvement on the lives of Filipino women. Widespread hunger, poverty, unemployment and the virtual absence of social services for the past two years as a result of President Aquino's economic policies have all contributed to the deterioration of Filipino women and children's lives." Thus said Gabriela Women's Party Representative Luz Ilagan as progressive partylist organizations joined today's protests to mark President Aquino's second year in office.  read more »

Gabriela Women’s Party Representative Luz Ilagan today said the Filipino women’s daily fare of poverty, hunger and increasing maternal deaths due to inaccessibility of healthcare easily debunks the WB report placing the Philippines sixth among 129 countries in gender equality.

“The WB report on gender equality is but a sorry attempt to create an illusion that the Filipino women’s quality of life has improved when it has in fact worsened. Mothers are dying every day,” said Ilagan.  read more »

Gabriela Representatives Luz Ilagan and Emmi de Jesus joined the regional delegates of GWP’s 5th National Congress in WOMEN WALK FOR ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE, proceeding to Lung Center, National Kidney Transplant Institute, and Philippine Heart Center on May 27, 2012. The women lambasted the railroading of the passage of HB 6069 converting 26 government hospitals into government corporations. They said that through this bill, the government abandons its responsibility of providing for people’s health and allowing local and foreign businesses to profit from people’s health.  read more »

“Increasing maternity leave benefits from 60 days to 120 days will give mothers the chance to fully recover after childbirth. It will give mothers the opportunity to nurse and care for their newborn and will help promote maternal and child health.”  read more »

Gabriela Women’s Party Representative Luz Ilagan, along with hundreds of RH warriors called for the immediate passage of the Reproductive Health Bill at the House of Representatives. “With every single day that the RH Bill is delayed, 11 mothers die due to complications which could have easily been avoided if access to healthcare is ensured.”  read more »

The increase in poverty incidence and hunger should prompt President Aquino to abandon the Conditional Cash Transfer program and instead, support the immediate legislation of poverty relief measures pending in Congress.  read more »

At least 100 women from Gabriela Women’s Partylist gathered in a flash mob in Congress to dance the chacha. Dubbed as “Women Dance to Stop Chacha”, participants danced the chacha while chanting: “Pilipinas not for sale! Stop, stop Charter Change! Itigil na ang Charter Change!”

Gabriela Women’s Party-Marikina coordinator Jessica Buligan said this was but one way for women to express their opposition to moves in Congress to amend the economic provisions in the Constitution. Congress resumes session today.  read more »