Alfredo R. Melgar

Imagine a woman warned by her doctor to refrain from having a fifth pregnancy for medical reasons. She decides to use...

Senator Tito Sotto tried to debunk the data that 11 maternal deaths occur daily, but ended up reinforcing the same with...

Senator Tito Sotto suffered a personal loss with the death of his son. We understand his grief. What we cannot understand is why he chose to rely on an unknown blogger to explain his son's death. Right before asserting that he lost a child due to contraceptives, Sotto said he has scientific proof about the “damaging effects to children born from mothers who were using contraceptives prior to their pregnancy.” He then went on a lengthy explanation about gut imbalance, opportunistic flora, exposure of the fetus to toxins and zinc depletion. His scientific proof was copied entirely and almost word-for-word from an article by a blogger calling herself “Sarah, the Healthy Home Economist.”

Based on true events, "Paalam, Soledad" follows the struggles of Sister Soledad with her faith and her principles amidst the realities...

Fr. Melvin Castro, an official of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), argues that the RH bill is not...

A new SWS survey confirmed old findings – most people support choice in family planning, including methods declared evil by some...

Democracy and with it, freedom of choice, are among the best moral ideas that we have developed, a “universal value” of...

It used to be that crimes were done in the name of God. Hand it to the inglorious Gloria Macapagal Arroyo...

Of around 3.37 M pregnancies that occurred in 2008, 17% led to induced abortions and 14% to unwanted births—more than...