After emotions have sizzled down a bit from all the excitement about excommunication and Damaso, one sobers up to the proposed budget for family planning: P280 million for pills, P100 million for injectibles, and P8 million for condom for a total of P400 million.
Awesomely epic photobomb from yesterday's rally in front of the CBCP. That’s Red Tani of Filipino Freethinkers behind him, together with an homage to a classic xkcd cartoon.
I sympathize with the folk who find Carlos Celdran’s actions offensive and unreasonable. But let me suggest, too, that there’s enough unreasonableness to go around, and maybe it didn’t start with Carlos shouting in Manila Cathedral.
President Aquino has recently verbalized his support for government health offices to offer artificial family planning methods alongside natural ones. We...