INSTEAD of gnashing their teeth, Catholic militants, if they had just bothered to read the actual Court decision, should have called for churches all over the land to toll their bells in celebration. The Supreme Court decision on the Reproductive Health Law entrenched a very questionable Catholic dogma as state policy that in effect bans government from undertaking any effective population control program.
If the US Supreme Court’s landmark 1973 Roe vs Wade decision marked America’s move towards affirming women’s supreme rights over their bodies, the April 2014 decision of our Supreme Court on the Reproductive Rights Law deprives Filipinas of their long-held rights under our culture over when their pregnancy can be terminated.
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