Population, Poverty, Politics and the Reproductive Health Bill

Debate is always healthy: religious and other groups are perfectly free to espouse their own views and opinions. The line must be drawn, however, at that point where deliberate efforts are made to misinform and distort the true and well-meaning provisions of the RH Bill.

Islam’s Take on Contraception and Abortion

(Reposted with permission from the original Facebook note by author Former COMELEC Commissioner Mehol K. Sadain) Contraception, which is the prevention of conception, has long been legally practiced among married Muslims. The rationale for allowing contraception ranges from health to economic reasons, and includes improving the quality of life of children and their family. Hence, [...]