The Groups Supporting the RH BILL Part 4: Women's Legal Education, Advocacy and Defense Foundation, Inc. - WOMENLEAD

WomenLEAD is a feminist NGO for legal resource institution for women committed to advancing women's human rights through feminist methodologist in the critique and analysis of law and the legal system. Through its core program (Feminist Counseling and Legal Services), WomenLEAD's core of lawyers and paralegals engage in litigation to challenge laws, and the legal culture which reinforces biases against women.WomenLEAD is the local partner of ASAP involved in public advocacy on the issue of Reproductive Health Bill for the benefit  of women and girls, including abortion rights. They oppose the criminalization of abortion but right now their main focus is the passage of the RH BILL. Their members are regularly visible in lectures and forums about Women Rights and Empowerment and has never missed any chance to indoctrinate the audience that abortion is among the fundamental reproductive rights of a woman. They conduct several researches about abortion with the intent of swaying our lawmakers to consider its legalization in the future

They wrote several position papers such as for the re-registration of the Emergency Contraceptive Pill, Postinor (levonorgestrel 750 mcg) which was banned by the DOH

The Groups Supporting the RH BILL Part 3: Asia Safe Abortion Partnership ASAP

ASAP was created as a platform for advocacy, debate and dialogue for promoting access to medical abortion worldwide. Their goal is to promote, protect and advance women’s sexual and reproductive health rights in Asia by promoting access to comprehensive safe abortion services. This confirms what pro-lifers have been warning for so long: If the Reproductive Health (RH) Bill passes now, the fight in a few years will no longer be about providing contraception but rather providing abortion. That is why, despite all the flak from the media, we are not yielding an inch on the RH Bill. We know what “reproductive health” means when such people like from ASAP say it.

http://www.asap-asia.org/country-profile-philippines.html

PROLIFE POSTER #3

A provocative poster to touch men's ego. It is all about discipline

PROLIFE POSTER #2

A mother’s glowing kindness and selflessness is a call from God. A woman is cared and respected mainly due to her God-given gift to bear life. Child bearing is a no easy task for women. Giving birth is both painful and rewarding experiences for mothers.God instituted marriage so that men and women can fulfill their gender roles within a family. Ideally, marriage enhances the life of a man and a woman by providing them with a community of caring and sharing, of stability and support, of nurture and welfare. The kind of gift marriage brings forth to the society is incomparable and that is why there is much necessity to keep it standing strong.
A Bill that will remove parental authority over their minor children or would devalue a husband's leadership in homes is destructive of the family as a basic unit of the society.

For more information please visit:
www.prolife.org.ph
filipinosforlife.com

PROLIFE POSTER #1

Vasectomy has been given a "pass" in the general public and when people answer questions about vasectomy on Yahoo! Answers, the posts always look the same. They all say  that vasectomy has no side effects, can't affect sexual function and is completely safe. When someone point out the incidence of chronic testicular pain and the sexual side effects that men complain about anonymously in internet forums, they get "thumbs down" ratings. This is very strange.We can always find list references from the Urological literature to back up these points, yet, few seem to accept the information.
I don't understand the defense of an elective surgical procedure by people who have not had it done. It is like vasectomy has an "urban myth" attached to it of "complete and total safety". Perhaps it is because of the advertising of vasectomy as completely safe and the lack of public forum to discuss the outcome. Fifty percent of men keep their vasectomy a secret due to fears of being seen as less masculine or defective in some way after the procedure. Perhaps the men that have side effects keep their symptoms to themselves out of a similar fear or embarrassment. It is not like vasectomy is an acceptable "water cooler" topic.
Interestingly, if you get men who have had it done to talk about it, you hear a wide group of side effects and the hell of post-vasectomy pain syndrome.

For more details visit:
www.vasectomypain.org
www.prolife.org
www.prolife.org.ph

A Vasectomy gone wrong

What if the "safe" vasectomy fails? Failure as in you would loose all the manly pride you have in your entire life. One will not only suffer a tremendous physical pain but also a lifelong psychological trauma.
In May 1996, Daniel Stalker reluctantly decided to undergo Vasectomy with the promises of safe, simple, painless and less invasive operation as compared to female sterilization. He felt so much pain during the procedure. Later one of his testicles then turned black and swelled to double the size. The complications has caused so much pain as he describes :
“About 20 hours a day I’m in bed, doubled up in pain. I’ve tried to commit suicide five or six times because the pain is that bad. It is manageable one minute - I could be sitting there talking - then the next second I’m doubled over in pain and I’m screaming the house down. It happens about five times a day.”

He said it was difficult for his wife, Elizabeth, 47, and his four children, Gayle, 25, Michael, 23, John, 15, and Aimee, 12. Gayle had had to come back from Australia, where she was working as a nanny, to help his wife look after him, he said.
Doctors has to remove his testicles to save his life and an attempt to end his misery - but this has failed to alleviate the pain.

Regrets comes later. Better be safe than becoming "less of a man"

The Groups Supporting the RH BILL Part 2: Center for Reproductive Rights CCR

Sorry for this one

 “Funding for abortion services has increasingly been recognized as a necessary tool for ensuring access to a fundamental human right.”-CCR
"[Forsaken Lives] is the first report of its kind that links the abortion ban in the Philippines to a violation of women's rights."-- CRR Pres. Nancy Northup referring to their reports about abortion bans.

The Center for Reproductive Rights is a global women rights organization that uses constitutional and international law to secure women's reproductive freedom including rights for abortion. In their paper report entitled "Forsaken Lives", they blame the Philippines’ pro-life laws criminalizing abortion for endangering women. The group alleges that criminalizing abortions has  forced women to turn to illegal abortions that can result in complications and  even death. The report implies that the laws against abortion is a human right violation for women. It is noted that this very same deceptive tactic is used to get abortion legalized in the U.S. and still being used to legalize abortion in other countries including Philippines.
If this argument is acceptable, then we might as well legalize other criminal activities like illegal drugs to make it safe during "sessions" or the sex dens so that sex workers will be given workers' rights too!
The idea of legalizing abortion is like a poison hiding in the guise of women empowerment, gender equality, maternal health, women's health, and women rights that is why feminists legislators are easily fooled and deceived in passing immoral bills like the RH BILL.
Right now, this pending RH BILL has little or no provisions for abortions but its contents will surely pave the way for more acts of baby killing.