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... Introduction
House Bill 31 , for which House Bill 6123 was substituted is steered by the ideology of the 1994 Cairo Conference or International Conference on Population and Development because, according to the explanatory note: “it was given a wider mandate to analyze the interrelationships between population, development and the environment and recommend measures for adoption of its recommendations by governments and various stakeholders in their respective countries. ... One of the major objectives of the bill is to build up to the local level the integration and implementation of a population plan or program. ...
Staunch pro-lifers denounced the bill as dissolute, decrying that it has no legal or moral basis. The Family Life Commission even drafted a resolution to push for the public to fight the Bill. According to the protesters:
[We] URGE YOU, our esteemed Legislators, particularly, the authors, co-authors of House Bill Nos. 4110 and 6123, and similar bills , to seize this singular opportunity to BE the mother, father, sister, brother, daughter or son that you ARE, and to defend, protect, preserve and nurture the FILIPINO FAMILY that you HAVE; and
STOP the passage of Bill Nos. ...
However, advocates of gender equity have voiced their support of the bill a means for women empowerment. With the bill’s provisions, the Filipino women will be able to choose the gaps between having one child and another with the use of contraceptives. ... But there is no where in the bill that abortion is seen. ... "
Furthermore, regional director Psyche Paler of the Population Commission-10 (Popcom-10) the church is wrong in calling for the rejection of Senate Bill 6123 since it is the integrated population development act that would strengthen Popcom. According to Paler, in the most recent amendment of the bill last June the bill clearly showed that abortion is not used as a family planning method.
While Filipino women are not subjected to more severe practices of gender inequality such as wife burning, female infanticide, genital cutting and other forms of violence experienced by women in other countries they are nonetheless victims of society’s gender bias manifested through marginalization, multiple burden, gender stereotyping, subordination and violence. Advocates of the bill perceive it as a stepping stone towards the upliftment of human’s rights and the increased participation of women in the functions of a citizen and a human being.
In response to this argument of the bill’s supporters, the Simbahayan Commission said that “the terms ‘gender equality and equity ‘are correct; unfortunately the UN/USAID officialdom and their contractors read this as gender identity and competition.
Approximate Word count = 2027
Approximate Pages = 8.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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