MEComposing

Anyway, this bit of information bothered me. 60% percent of births happening in homes isn't all that bad when you think about all those years ago when it was the norm.

The thing is, it implies a lack of socioeconomical progress for the 77% of women who don't have access to health care and facilities.

77% of those women, chances are, fall under the 80% of the Filipino poor. And I don't know the ratio of men to children and men... but at 84 million (expected Philippine population by eo this year), I can only guess at how many millions of women do not have access to reproductive health campaigns.

One can only laugh at how (and pity) doctors must get attacked by a foul stench when a poor woman spreads her legs for childbirth... but it's actually really sad...

For most of these women, spreading their legs have become a way to keep the peace with their spouse/partners, to hold onto a man, to feel 'like a real woman' or to 'fulfill her destiny'... or, there was simply nothing better to do...

And then it's their bodies that deteriorate for every unprotected sex with a non-hygienic partner and for every childbirth...

PGMA is a woman... but I have yet to see her make women's issues her cause. I have yet to see the government really tackle reproductive health awareness... and penalize both men and women for being totally irresponsible in bringing forth children they don't even welcome nor want...