Marguerite de Leon

The problem with Atty. Montes's segment was that most of her arguments attacked provisions in the Bill that have already been nixed by the authors quite some time ago, such as the encouragement to have two children as the ideal family size; mandatory sex education; and requiring employers to provide RH services to their employees.

We weren't sure if the Freedumbers showed up that day, much less if they were attacked by some dude with a knuckle ring on one hand and a super-absorbent sponge in the other, but it was still quite a show we witnessed at the lecture Women Speak Out: The Medical and Legal Truths on the RH Bill.

Keep Your Theology out of My Biology; Get Your Rosaries out of My Ovaries; 'Ala Bang May Utak sa Council; and...

Starting from a handful of people who (figuratively) killed sacred cows at (relatively) civilized Starbucks meetups, the Filipino Freethinkers have evolved...

CAN'T MAKE IT TO OUR PROTESTS AND DEMONSTRATIONS? Ever wanted to join fellow Freethinkers in their public endeavors, but was stuck at...

UPDATE: Watch the video of the performance here. On the morning of the 100th Annual International Women's Day, the Filipino Freethinkers were...

Last Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011, the Filipino Freethinkers and fellow pro-Reproductive Health (RH) groups under the Reproductive Health Advocacy Network (RHAN)...

As an alternative to the usual meetup format, FF spent its latest gathering getting our art on at The Collective, albeit...

“We don’t eat babies.” I’ve been hearing this a lot since I joined the Filipino Freethinkers last May. And it’s true—the Philippines’s...