We must put an end to policies that undermine basic constitutional principles in order to lock up the pregnant women and mothers who need health care most.
Women have been quietly making gains in education, leadership, respect in the media, and power in the office. Obviously, that's why we're suffering from an anti-feminist backlash. But this time, it's all about ridiculous standards of chastity.
There's a sticker, unpeeled, on my father's office desk. I don't know where it's from, but it's meant to demonstrate one's opposition to the Reproductive Health Bill now in Congress in the Philippines. "Say no," the sticker reads, a thick red diagonal line dashing across the glossy sheet of vinyl.
