Abortion.

This is the fatal reality of a woman’s desperation to end a life in her

womb because it wasn’t intended to be there. It is terrible.

According to the handy Merriam-Webster Dictionary, Abortion is the

spontaneous or induced termination of a pregnancy, after, accompanied by,
resulting in, or closely followed by the death of the embryo or the fetus.

In the medical field there are types of abortion. There is one which is
therapeutically performed to save the life of a mother and her future pregnancies. It
is called Therapeutic Abortion. Another type is an expulsion of the fetus due to
accident, trauma or any biological causes. This is called Spontaneous Abortion or
Miscarriage. These 2 types are carefully studied in the medical field in terms of
ethics, are acceptable, and are not frightening to cringe.

Let’s do some factoids to create some kind of scenario. What if we have a

man and a woman being intimate. They get it on, sexy time, and it’s the green light.

The biological average for a person to have a satisfactory sexual experience

is within 4 to 16 minutes, anything less or greater than that is the lack of excitation
or too much pornographic idealism.

The course of time for procreation to happen might be in an hour to a few

days.

The success rate for a “survivor” sperm to penetrate into a healthy ovum is
99.9%.

The highest number of sexually active individuals with the most incidences of
unwanted pregnancy is in the young adolescents’ bracket of our population
according to POPCOM.

In the metro, there is Quiapo, a place to run to when incidents of unwanted

pregnancy happen. Stalls that surround the holiest of places in the area are
equipped with the alternatives to expel a human organism in a woman’s womb. In
the rural areas, there is a great reliance to the “mananambal”, hilot, or herbal
abortifacients. All of these are Back-Alley abortions also known as illegal abortions,
self-induced abortions, backyard abortions and etc. Let’s put it this way, Back-Alley
Abortion is third type of abortion.

There are tall, tall tales of back-alley abortion methods in the street. Like:

1. Prickling

2. Lifting

3. Jumping

4. Douching softdrinks
 5. Popping an illegal ulcer drug

6. Abdominal massage or Hilot

7. Suction

Fetuses that are successfully expelled are often seen in public comfort rooms,
garbage cans, rivers and some unlikely places. Most of the time you’ll find a
wrapped object in church bathrooms and voila! it is human. This notion of leaving
the dead fetus in the premise of the church come from the idea that fetus can
directly go to heaven. Unlikely.

Entertaining these objects into a body cavity is harmful. It will eventually

cause death if signs and symptoms are ignored.

Abortion is a social, moral, and political concern. In a lot of religious

communities, this is already murder. But people get away with it because when the
evidence is left in garbage cans or on the sidewalks, who can attest to the law if this
is painstakingly done in great secrecy. Plus, it is highly assumed that only one or
two persons are involved. And in their shame, they have sworn not to tell a single
soul about this. Who would show their dirty laundry in the public anyway? The
culprits walk in our midst.

Having such legends still present in our country, there is a reason why we are
judged as underdeveloped, third-world, or backward. That is why the call to have
Reproductive Health is a great need.

The deal with the HB 5043 Reproductive Health is that it doesn’t advocate
abortion but aims to make it a thing of the past. Reduced, stopped, or obsolete.

Now, there has been a lot of commotion between the Church and the State
about this matter. Arguments have been raised that the bill is pro-abortion and thus
it is deemed unconstitutional. There have been judgments on the authors
Honorables Edcel C. Lagman, Janette Garin, Anna Hontiveros-Baraquel, et al that
they have become heretics and such. That grey cloud above our heads must be
cleared up. These judgments are from misconceptions. If you read and understand
the bill, it is well- written and there isn’t any hint of it being pro-abortion. All
conditions state in there is as clear as day. The sole concern for the bill is purely to
generate Health in a very moral manner.

I am anti-abortion because “it makes me sick”. That slang purely defines how
terrible it is. Abortion isn’t the only option. After 9 months, a woman can give up the
child for adoption if the responsibility for having him/her is heavy. Although…In the
first place, why would one have reckless sex. Think about it first before everything
is too late.