Bleak 50 Essays Entry #3
Filipinos have suffered long enough due to poverty and overpopulation. In line with this, the growing population has been contributing more to the pollution and the increasing number of unemployed citizens in the society. Economists, political analysts and even the minds of the people who were just tickled by the developing dilemma in the Philippines started to think of possible solutions. Alas, the House of Representatives steered the approval of the RH Law in the 15th National Congress. Will this law lessen the poverty and unemployment rate in the country? Or will it just paint a vision that can never be realized?
Surveys say the Philippines made the cut and reached the Top 15 Most Populated Countries in Asia, with the country ranking 12th. Politicians and economic advisers think that the best way to grapple out of this situation is to control the ever-rising figures of the nation’s residents and the unmistakable number of the families below the poverty line. The most excellent answer to the problems being addressed by the government is the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012 or Republic Act No. 10354. This law ensures the use of the different methods of contraception, fertility control, sexual education and maternal care. Also, it promotes only the protection of the mother or the couple from sexually-transmitted diseases and untimely pregnancy, defying the 1987 Philippine Constitution’s “the State shall equally protect life of the mother and the life of the unborn from contraception.” Though the law strictly insists that abortion is still a crime and the people who practice this must be punished, the life of the unborn begins during fertilization, when the sperm and ovum meet to form a single cell. Consequently, the use of contraceptives does not permit the process of fertilization, eventually preventing the start of a new life. The RH Law just makes the term “abortion” sweeter to the human ears and manipulates people to treat the commandment of God, Thou Shall Not Kill, with cruel contempt - murdering the lives of the innocent and docile infants without even stopping to think about the result of the couples’ irresponsible acts. Moreover, the implementation of the act will cost billions of pesos and the undying corruption in the society proves that there is more than meets the eye of the Filipino citizens. The enactment of the law will most likely lead to the sequel of the Fertilizer Fund Scam and the next installment of the National Broadband Network Scandal.
Albeit the RH Law has been gaining the support of several minority groups, there are still people who do not withdraw from their opposition to the law. If people think that this law will be the way to the betterment of humanity, Filipinos will be just mere brushes with the lawmakers as painters and the canvass of life will be so predictable and dominated by wrong persons with the future generation too busy to watch. And perhaps, the RH Law is simply like the Mona Lisa - it is a painting of a vision that can never be realized.
Surveys say the Philippines made the cut and reached the Top 15 Most Populated Countries in Asia, with the country ranking 12th. Politicians and economic advisers think that the best way to grapple out of this situation is to control the ever-rising figures of the nation’s residents and the unmistakable number of the families below the poverty line. The most excellent answer to the problems being addressed by the government is the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012 or Republic Act No. 10354. This law ensures the use of the different methods of contraception, fertility control, sexual education and maternal care. Also, it promotes only the protection of the mother or the couple from sexually-transmitted diseases and untimely pregnancy, defying the 1987 Philippine Constitution’s “the State shall equally protect life of the mother and the life of the unborn from contraception.” Though the law strictly insists that abortion is still a crime and the people who practice this must be punished, the life of the unborn begins during fertilization, when the sperm and ovum meet to form a single cell. Consequently, the use of contraceptives does not permit the process of fertilization, eventually preventing the start of a new life. The RH Law just makes the term “abortion” sweeter to the human ears and manipulates people to treat the commandment of God, Thou Shall Not Kill, with cruel contempt - murdering the lives of the innocent and docile infants without even stopping to think about the result of the couples’ irresponsible acts. Moreover, the implementation of the act will cost billions of pesos and the undying corruption in the society proves that there is more than meets the eye of the Filipino citizens. The enactment of the law will most likely lead to the sequel of the Fertilizer Fund Scam and the next installment of the National Broadband Network Scandal.
Albeit the RH Law has been gaining the support of several minority groups, there are still people who do not withdraw from their opposition to the law. If people think that this law will be the way to the betterment of humanity, Filipinos will be just mere brushes with the lawmakers as painters and the canvass of life will be so predictable and dominated by wrong persons with the future generation too busy to watch. And perhaps, the RH Law is simply like the Mona Lisa - it is a painting of a vision that can never be realized.