Social Justice

If the goal of Catholics is to protect as many unborn children as possible, striking down the RH Law is just about the worst thing you can possibly do.

“The mass of steel started to crawl away from the train station. The smell of rust was drowned out by a...

What is curious about the petition is that reproductive health supporters can use exactly the same words to uphold the constitutionality of the law. Majority of Filipinos support the RH Law precisely because it upholds our ideals and aspirations. Using the words of the same Preamble the petitioners used, it can be pointed out that our nation needs the RH Law to “build a just and human society” and “promote the common good, conserve and develop our patrimony, and secure to ourselves and our posterity, the blessings of independence and democracy under the rule of law and a regime of truth, justice, freedom, love, equality, and peace.”

The reproductive health (RH) and divorce bills have one thing in common: they both propose to grant certain rights to certain individuals. But their similarity ends there because the rights associated with each bill are very much different in terms of form and what they require of the State.

If there's one thing reproductive health (RH) advocates want for Christmas, it's the passage of the RH Bill. Many have been...

All of a sudden the RH Bill is a signature away from becoming the RH Law. Recently, it's been progressing so...

The RH bill has been called divisive by its opponents over and over even as it is already about to become a law. And as if to cause further divide, another contentious issue is now being brought up by no less than House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte, who revealed plans of enacting the divorce bill next congress.

No, the world is not going to end this week. That belief is too unfounded to be even worth a rebuttal.

  The Bishops of the Philippines have some really shitty logic and they have been using this logic to spew lies and...