Women Will Never Be at Losing End of Fight for Pro-Poor and Comprehensive Health Care, GWP

"As Congress closes for recess, I call on my fellow congressmen to go down to their constituency, and listen to marginalized women voice out their problems with access to comprehensive reproductive health care. With this simple act of opening up their minds and ears, maybe we can start working on a comprehensive health bill that will truly respond to their basic health needs," said Gabriela Women’s Party Representative Emmi De Jesus as she joined women in a forum in Marikina City.

"We need a health bill that will respect women, not degrade them. We need a reproductive health bill that will not reduce women and blame them for the nation’s poverty because they have many children. We must work together to enshrine the women’s inherent right to full access to basic reproductive,” added Rep. De Jesus.

”GWP and the women remain committed to fight for a pro-poor, rights-based, scientific and comprehensive reproductive health bill. It is imperative that the reproductive health bill that we are crafting in the Congress be framed on these tenets so that the voice of the marginalized and disadvantaged women can then be recognized, respected and promoted. To this end, GWP will continue to work with its colleagues in Congress and co-authors of the RH bill, in order to further improve on it and remove provisions that pertain to a population control framework,” ended GWP solon De Jesus.