The Insanity of Reproductive Health

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By featured writer Reyann Red

I’m a nurse working in a government hospital, and for most days how I wish I could shove the placentas of those women who give birth in front of those in the Church and everybody who are against family planning, how I wish that they were working in government hospitals all over the country and feel the desperation, insanity and foolishness of the blindness these people give to our leaders with regard to the basic truth that everybody has the right to choose and decide for themselves, hence the right to choose to space the number of children they will have.

Teen Pregnancy on the rise: Call for collective action

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Around the world, the rate of teen pregnancy is on the rise.  In the ASEAN region, the Philippines has the third highest teen pregnancy rate and it is only in the Philippines where the rate in teen pregnancy has increased. If the future of a country lies in the hands of its young people, what are the long term implications of the issue of teen pregnancy? What are the implications to health and lives of young mothers? Is there really cause for alarm?  

Nursing the Reproductive Health Bill: Pro-Mom, Pro-Life

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By Jesther Rowen Bautista On 25 Nov, 2010
Original Link: http://lormahighlights.com/2010/11/reproductivehealthbill/

Attending to mothers in the labor room is a common role for the graduating student-nurse. While waiting inside the room, I often ask my clients whether it is their first time to have a baby or not.

Often, patients in the delivery room are multi-parous(has delivered more than one child). Jokingly, I ask them why they want more children. I get various answers in return, some of them attuned to boredom, ‘can’t get enough’, accidents in bed and to some ‘the more the merrier’.