Pro-Life Philippines

This week, we talk about abortion rights in the Philippines. We go into detail about what's been happening with the 7th Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights, which conservative Catholics have been trying to shut down.

This week, we talk about abortion rights in the Philippines. We go into detail about what's been happening with the 7th Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights, which conservative Catholics have been trying to shut down.

Red Tani called out Eric Manalang for lying at the Ang ProLife COMELEC party-list accreditation hearing. But don't just take his word for it. We've have video footage of the hearing.

You may have heard about Pro-Life Philippines' recent filing of their new congressional party list, ANG PRO LIFE. Perhaps you wondered how this camp, with high profile supporters like Golez, Pacquiao, Sotto, and Enrile, who have managed to delay reproductive health legislation for more than a decade, could realistically be called 'underrepresented' (a basic requirement for establishing a party list group).

In the forum held by the CCP over the controversial artworks of Mideo Cruz the Catholic fundamentalists of the CBCP, via their...

We have seen riskier art with religious images at the CCP and other galleries; people complained, but never at a scale such as this. Why? Because back then only the artist gains from the attention.

Despite every effort made at civil accomodation, the CBCP and Pro-life Philippines have shown through their actions that they do not want discourse or discussion; they only want their demands met and their dictates obeyed.

A brief e-mail interview with Mideo Cruz, the artist behind the controversial works being displayed in the Cultural Center of the Philippines which the conservative Catholics of Pro-Life Philippines are trying to take down for blasphemy.

For the sake of accuracy (and the chance to portray all of this as the off-Broadway play it might as well be), below are script-style excerpts of the exchange between members of the Filipino Freethinkers and anti-RH individuals at the forum's Q&A segment. Most lines were lifted verbatim.