Simple: cause almost everyone missed the point.
I’m glad that the church is challenged, I’m glad that there are people standing firm and saying that we are not the Friar state we used to be. But it really isn’t about that.
It is about the women and children who die at birth, who didn’t know the what and how to take care of themselves.
It is for an entire generation of women that were haunted by the trauma of their prom night, because they simply didn’t know any better.
It is about each scared high school girl who seriously believed that she could have an abortion by taking aspirin with coca-cola.
It’s about each teenage boy who couldn’t really understand what was happening to them, or comprehend the consequences of following what they felt.
For the parents who don’t know how to talk to their kids. For the kids who dared to ask, only to be punished.
For those who learned elsewhere but got lost in the fiction: in the magazines, the internet, urban legends, their adventurous friends.
The ones who learned in regret, in retrospect.
For lack of facts, we work with fiction and heresay.
These are the fictions that they believed in. Read it and weep.
With sexuality, ignorance is not bliss.
Add food for thought: we could get the right information out at zero cost.
Three little words: Face the facts. We need RH Bill 5043. We need to know.
Or face this fact: people will die from not knowing.