In a perfect world with perfect human beings, there would be no need for the RH Bill.
In a perfect world with perfect human beings, only perfect married couples would engage in sexual intercourse and the perfect Catholic married couples would practice abstinence or natural family planning to avoid pregnancy. Unmarried perfect people would not “fornicate.”
In a perfect world with perfect human beings, there would be no poor people, so all perfect married couples who need access to contraception would be able to buy it themselves.
In a perfect world with perfect human beings, there would be no maternal deaths that result from illegal induced-abortions which happen when ultra-poor women get pregnant because they do not have access to contraception, because in a perfect world, all perfect people can either afford contraception or are perfectly capable of abstinence.
In a perfect world with perfect human beings, there would be no need for sex education in school because perfect parents would properly instruct their perfect children about perfect behavior, perfect decorum, and the consequences of “improper behavior”, etc and the perfect children will follow their perfect parents.
It would be perfect to live in a perfect world with perfect human beings, don’t you agree?
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Alas…
We do not live in a perfect world with perfect human beings.
In our imperfect world with imperfect human beings, imperfect children do not always obey their imperfect parents.
In our imperfect world with imperfect human beings, many imperfect unmarried people are unable to abstain from sexual intercourse and thus imperfectly engage in “fornication.”
In our imperfect world with imperfect human beings, many imperfect Catholic married couples cannot stand abstinence and thus imperfectly resort to the use of contraceptives.
In our imperfect world with imperfect human beings, there are many imperfect people who cannot earn enough money and as such end up as poor imperfect paupers.
In our imperfect world with imperfect human beings, there are many imperfect husbands among the poor imperfect paupers who force their imperfect wives or partners to have intercourse with them even when the imperfect wives or partners refuse to do so because they wish to abstain in order to avoid pregnancy.
In our imperfect world with imperfect human beings, many poor imperfect women who are wives or partners of poor imperfect paupers who get pregnant even if they did not wish to get pregnant nor have intercourse with their imperfect husbands/partners in the first place.
In our imperfect world with imperfect human beings, many poor imperfect women who are wives or partners of poor imperfect paupers want to have access to artificial contraception in order to avoid getting pregnant as they know their imperfect financial situation will not afford them another imperfect mouth to feed, but are unable to afford contraception.
In our imperfect world with imperfect human beings, many poor imperfect women who do get pregnant but did not want to get pregnant in the first place end up going for imperfect illegal abortions.
In our imperfect world with imperfect human beings, these poor imperfect pregnant women who go for illegal imperfect abortions because they know they cannot afford to have another child end up dying due to the imperfect abortion procedures they went to which they wouldn’t have gone through had they not gotten pregnant in the first place.
In our imperfect world with imperfect human beings, many imperfect ultra-poor women experience pregnancy complications because their imperfect nutrition and imperfect health makes them unfit for pregnancy.
In our imperfect world with imperfect human beings, many of these imperfect ultra-poor women who experience pregnancy complications die because of their imperfect health and nutritional conditions.
In our imperfect world with imperfect human beings, these imperfect women who die from complications due to unfit and imperfect pregnancies or imperfect illegal and induced abortions would not die had they had access to contraception, thus reducing their chances at pregnancy in the first place.
In our imperfect world with imperfect human beings, the imperfect State already has to spend millions of pesos caring for imperfect women who come into government hospitals or clinics due to such complications due to unfit pregnancy or illegal abortions.
In our imperfect world with imperfect human beings, the imperfect State already has to spend billions of pesos in combined social-services costs for both healthcare and public school education spending for so many imperfect children whose imperfect parents were not prepared to have imperfect children or had an imperfect financial situation, giving these imperfect children their imperfect lives.
In our imperfect world with imperfect human beings, all these imperfect scenarios could be avoided or at least mitigated by an imperfect but optimal solution.
In our imperfect world with imperfect human beings, 11 imperfect Filipina women dying every single day could have been avoided by the adoption of an imperfect but at least optimal solution.
In our imperfect world with imperfect human beings, that imperfect but at least optimal solution is the RH Bill.
It is interesting, isn’t it, how most laws are not aimed at crooks but at sorting out the imperfections amongst essentially good people? The RH Bill keeps the good Catholics off the backs of those women who want to manage their own lives and bodies without guilt or condemnation. And, indeed, with a knowledge.
if magna carta for women is implemented properly there is no need for this bill…
I believe the Catholic Church even opposed the Magna Carta for women.
I think this article exactly shows why communism and socialism fail. hehe
Well, my friend, anything in the extremes is bound to fail, be it extreme socialism, extreme capitalism, extreme anarchy, extreme oligarchy, or extreme democracy.
In the political debates and rhetoric, there’s always one thing which is overlooked, one thing which debunks all these extremes: HUMAN NATURE.
why does the Catholic Church not get it? Man falls into temptation easily. that is a given. if people are so perfect that Natural Family Planning is the only method needed, then maybe we’d still all be in the garden of eden… immune to all the temptations talking serpents throw at you
I believe that there should be balance in what is real and what is ideal. People are so much fixated with the idea of what is ideal and tend to neglect the problems that beset the Filipinos, one of which is overpopulation. RH bill may not be the *ideal solution for the problem, but that is what we need at the moment.
Our world was made to be imperfect; with imperfect Human Beings; with imperfect physical bodies and consciousness; with a perfect soul.
In the concept of Reincarnation; this world is like a school house; where we learn life lessons, to perfect our Souls. We live in both spirit and physical worlds, at the same time. Once, we perfected our souls; we have the true knowledge. Only thru our true knowledge, can we approach God and join him…we advance thru cycles of rebirths, lifetimes, and deaths…as our souls are perfecting…The Christian religion, may not agree, with this religious belief. However, Reincarnation belief, was in both in Old Testament, and the New Testament of the original Christian Bible. It was removed by the order of the Roman Emperor Constantine, and her mother: Helena…It was also in the Jewish Religious Sect of Kabalah…