"Batang-Bata Ka Pa"

On Sex Education
House Bill 4244: Responsible Parenthood, Reproductive Health, and Population and Development Bill

Section 3(o)
This Act declares it a guiding principle that a comprehensive reproductive health program addresses the needs of all people throughout their life cycle.


       Are people always thinking about sex all the time 24 hours a day, 
       7 days a week, 365 days a year, beginning from their conception 
       up to their natural death? I beg to disagree that a new-born infant 
       needs a reproductive health program. A new-born baby does not 
       yet even have a good eyesight to see the things around him/her. 
       Why should a kid be addressed with a reproductive health program 
       by the State throughout his life cycle? 


Section 4
Reproductive Health and Sexuality Education refers to a lifelong learning process of providing and acquiring complete, accurate and relevant information and education on reproductive health and sexuality through life skills education and other approaches


       What are these life skills education? Is demonstrating how to put 
       on a condom using their mouths a "life skills education"? Is making 
       your pupil curious about how to insert an IUD in his classmate's 
       private organ also a "life skills education"? 
       Is penalizing your moral teachers including your parents, brothers 
       and sisters, and all the people who truly love you (whom you 
       consider as "maliciously engaging in disinformation" about the 
       provisions of this Act), with one to six months of imprisonment 
       or ten thousand to fifty thousand peso-fine or both such fine and
       imprisonment "an other approach" for you to acquire information 
       on reproductive health and sexuality?


Sec. 16.
Age-appropriate Reproductive Health and Sexuality Education shall be taught by adequately trained teachers in formal and non-formal education system starting from Grade Five up to Fourth Year High School using life skills and other approaches.


       Should your grade 5 son or daughter be taught about sex at 
       school at a time when you are detached from him/her, at a time 
       when you are out of sight? Is your fourth year brother or sister 
       ready to face the challenges of parenting, or abortion, when they
       become pregnant out of curiosity on the "family planning" tools 
       called contraceptives, or through contraceptive failure? Do you 
       want your children, and all the other parents' children to be 
       taught sex and sexuality at a time when these innocent-minded 
       children still lack judgment on family, sexual and parenting life? 


       Do you want everyone in high school, who still need yet all the 
       wisdom of their parents, to disrespect them and their elders 
       because they, being high school students taught with Sex 
       Education, believe that they have all the right to have sex and 
       pretend to know everything about sex without asking the opinion 
       of their parents, by being secretive to their parents and not telling 
       them that these are what they are taught at school? 

                             A page contained in the proposed Sex Education Module teaching a child that  
                             he does not need to ask for permission from his parents.


Sec. 16.
Age-appropriate reproductive health and sexuality education shall be integrated in all relevant subjects.


       Sex Education shall be integrated in all relevant subjects? In 
       Mathematics? In Chemistry? In Physics? In English? In Filipino? 
       In Araling Panlipunan? In Values Education? In Home 
       Economics? In Physical Education and Sports? Will the State 
       tell the students that all he has to learn while inside the classroom 
       is sex, sex, and more sex? That all he has to apply in his daily life 
       and "throughout his life cycle" is sex, sex, and more sex.


       Are they going to have practicums also? How will the examinations 
       go? If they were allowed not to enter sex ed classes because of 
       their parents' convictions, does that mean that the pupils will 
       never have to attend any lecture or any examination of any subject 
       at any school at anytime anymore because Sex Education shall 
       already be integrated in all relevant subjects?


Sec. 16.
The DepEd, CHED, DSWD, TESDA and DOH shall provide concerned parents with adequate and relevant scientific materials on the age-appropriate topics and manner of teaching reproductive health education to their children.


       Is the State not yet contented with its meddling with parents' 
       primary right to teach  their children on sexuality education? 
       Does the State still want to "indoctrinate" them with its suggested 
       ultra-liberal ideas and information (which may have come from 
       another country, not our own mother country) by  providing them 
       with materials on the manner of teaching reproductive health 
       education to their children?


Sec 28(a)(2)
The following acts are prohibited: Any healthcare service provider, whether public or private, who shall refuse to extend health care services and information on account of the person's marital status, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, personal circumstances, or nature of work.


       On account of the person's age? Will the State imprison a 
       healthcare service provider, whether public or private, who will 
       refuse to give a 15-year-old girl with contraceptive pills on
       account of the girl's young age? Will a nurse be imprisoned 
       because she will refuse to give an IUD to an 11-year old? Will 
       a doctor be imprisoned because he/she refuses to perform tubal
       ligation to an under-aged girl, or vasectomy to a boy of minor age?


       Will the public official or employee suffer the accessory penalty of 
       dismissal from the government service and forfeiture of 
       retirement benefits because, he/she will have to refuse to be a 
       part of the team who distributes condoms at a place near a 
       reputable elementary or high school on the 14th of February 
       (St. Valentine's Day)?

"Batang-Bata Ka Pa at Marami Ka Pang
Kailangang Malaman at Intindihin sa Mundo..."

No to Sex Education Bill.
No to RH Bill.