There are only two sides in the RH Bill that an individual stand for. No maybes, only yes or no. when you say ‘yes’, you are prochoice, if you say ‘no’, then you are a prolife. It has long been a history when the RH bill was passed to the senate here in the republic of the Philippines, and the first time that I’ve heard of it, I already know where I firmly stand for—NO.
It has been a culture here in the family for tight family ties. Consider your own family as an example, do you have a large or a small family, do you live in a home where you see a mother, father, brothers and sisters, you live alone, or you have almost all of your relatives in your home? I guess, most of us Filipinos live as a big family, not only with our parents and siblings but also together with our grandparents and aunites and uncles sometimes. Sometimes, even our sibling/s who are already married still live in the same home. That is the ideal family we consider here in the Philippines. But, would you be happy if it happens the other way around?
For those who are parts of the smaller families, would you prefer it to be the same, or you think it should be more blissful if the family would be bigger? All of us have different opinions, but more often that not, our family was made naturally to be big or even yet small, someone didn’t really plan that much for how small or big it grows but the Almighty.
We Filipinos live in a democratic country, and being part of it makes it possible for us to conceive or reproduce the way we choose it to be. When the state decides to how small our family should be limited, we no longer are in a democratic country. We are dictated by the government to limit the size of our family, so where’s the sense of democracy there? No more. When that bill will be granted, we no longer have freedom in making that major decision in life. We exist for a reason, and one reason is for us to be a good steward to the creation of God and multiply. Life is complex and even though reasons are more than enough for us to choose a different decision totally opposite from what always wanted us to be, we still have to value life above all.
Everyone should be given the chance to have a life, even though that person’s existence is still yet foreseen. Pro-RH bill would say that in order to be good stewards with the creation, we have to be enough in this world, making each of us able to live with all the rights that we should enjoy. Yes, I agree to that. We all need to be good stewards of ourselves, especially the parents to their children and give them all the rights that they should have. That’s the responsibility of every parent. All parents must always remember that they should just bear the number of kids that they can take good care of. There are a lot of things that we should consider before having a family. So, it’s the proper education to each individual, especially the future parents need to have, but not the limitation of having 2 kids for each couple. What if a couple wants to have a soccer team and they can provide the resources that their future kids may have? What if the third kid is the hope of the country, he/ she will no longer be born, and the hope we sought would never ever come to realization. It doesn’t sound good to stop any couple from any wonderful plan to build a large family, it’s their freewill as long as they can provide them their needs.
Actually I am so happy that I am a Filipino because I enjoy democracy. We are free but, we still have laws. But, to have a limit of 2 kids in a family, it seems like a crime that any couple would commit in case they exceed. And if that comes to a law, anyone who exceeds in bearing would be considered to be a violator of law, and what will the government do in case the child had already been conceived? Probably, the government would prevent that child from growing up. Through how? By killing the child while he/ she is still in his/ her mother’s womb? Oh, that sounds so absurd and so cruel! Our country will be then a country governed by criminals, which I’m sure we all hate to be proud of. Shall we consider being called criminals in our very own way, or continue to laugh, suffer, and grow with our family. I would choose the latter.
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