Here in the Philippines, the Catholic Bishops of the Philippines has strong political clout over our Government, Justice system and less fortunate people. That we can't even pass a Health bill because it promotes contraceptives and condoms and has a section that allows abortion, if the mother's life is in danger and the child inside her cannot be saved.
To the Religious zealots, its just abortion plain in simple with disregards to the mothers' life and they do not care if we are over populated and a child grows in poverty, as long as contraceptives and condoms is not used because they prevent life.
Pro-Life here = you just need to be given birth to, without a care to your standard of living.
We also have a study that the Philippines is the number 1 country with teen prenancies and illegal abortion in South East Asia because there is no proper sex education and also we have a high death rate of mothers while giving birth because a lot of our hospitals have no proper equipment to deal with complications that may occur during child labor and the funding is in the same bill.
Which is indefinitely stuck in the Supreme Court as they study if its legal under the constitution after 14 or so years of waiting in the Senate and Congress.
And if we cannot get this bill passed then there is no hope in passing Human Rights for LGBTs and the Divorce Law. So if you think its bad in America, you have not seen the Philippines yet and what the Church is doing to this country.
