Posts by: Felicity
It’s only been 100 days and already airwaves, newsprint and digital print have been awash in condoms and zealots, drunkards and cavorters, tarts, vicars, national heroes back from the grave and into the gaol, pointing fingers, lazy fingers, the list goes on. It’s become a cornucopic buzz of unintelligible static.
Now it’s easy [...]
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That the RH Bill is simply about contraception. It is not. It seeks to provide better training to midwives, access to basic pre-natal care services, a range of family planning methods, post-birth maternity checks, education on and treatment for fatal sexually transmitted diseases, and other basic health care rights.
That the only [...]
Continue Reading →HOUSE BILL NO. 5043
AN ACT PROVIDING FOR A NATIONAL POLICY ON REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH, RESPONSIBLE PARENTHOOD AND POPULATION DEVELOPMENT, AND FOR OTHER [...]
Continue Reading →I love museums. While I was a student, I would just chill in a different gallery of the Louvre every Friday (student discount day!), scoured every display at the various Smithsonians, explored the Isabella Stewart Gardener instead of watch a Red Sox game. I am currently the proud owner of a Netherlands museum card. Aside [...]
Continue Reading →From the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility, a guideline for the press as to how to respond to hostage situations and like crises. It was written in 2007.
(Emphases and greys mine)
THE DUCAT hostage-taking crisis is a coverage replete with lessons. Members of the press would do well to remember [...]
Continue Reading →A report released by the Center for Reproductive Rights revived an ongoing debate about reproductive health, particularly abortion. Now the Philippines whirls in a Roe-v-Wade-type of environment: to ban or to decriminalize? Pro-life advocates bill abortion as a desecration of the human dignity of life. The CRR report bills the ban on abortion as an abuse of human rights. So, who’s got it right?
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We are on track to be among the first countries in the world to one day eliminate our reliance on oil. We have the resources, we just need to use them better, and sustainably. Good for the environment, good for the economy. I am no greenie greenpeace advocate, but it makes economic [...]
Continue Reading →Ako lang ba, o kumulo din ba dugo ninyo sa simula ng SONA ng bagong Pangulo?
Let’s itemize the anomalies PNoy started with:
in the first half of the year, the government spent more than it earned national deficit has increased to nearly Php 200B (can someone make an accounting of how much the Arroyos [...]
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The Beginning, Part 2
“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.” — Louisa May Alcott
Many have argued, some convincingly, that despite Arroyo’s faults, we need a strong leader with an iron hand, a “noble dictator” so to speak [...]
Continue Reading →“To foretell the destiny of a nation, it is necessary to open the book that tells of her past.” – Jose Rizal
The last nine months was a watershed moment for Philippine history; it brought a nation full circle and face to face with itself.
In 1986, a new kind of revolution sprung forth from [...]
Continue Reading →- Metro Cebu – December 18, 2011
- Metro Davao – December 18, 2011
- Metro Manila – December 18, 2011
