Be Sexducated: COCians participate in women’s rights discussion

By: Hazel Gane Pilapil

In celebration of National Women’s Month, numerous Filipino Youth including young students from PUP-College of Communication and women advocates in the country held together to witness the special screening of ‘Mother Land’ with a short discussion happened on the day before International Women’s Day at Spaces, Makati.

The said event was organized by the Embassy of the Netherlands in the Philippines, with the presence of Stephanie Tan from Dakila, Marevic Parcon from Philippine Safe Abortion Advocacy Network – Pinsan, and Active Vista in partnership with Spaces.

Parcon of Pinsan talked about the lack of education towards responsible parenthood that instills stigma of having sensual relationship in the country, to which those points lead to abortion, poverty, and unsafe situation surrounding women in every sides of the world.

While Tan from Dakila conferred about the inability of the lawmakers to open-mindedly approach the enforcement of proper family planning in the country, due to the fact that it is them who misinterpreted the common goal of sex education– safe and justified population in the Philippines.

Ramona Diaz’s Motherland is a Sundance Documentary film set in Fabella Maternity Hospital A.K.A ‘Baby Factory’ showing the moments of difficulty and vulnerability of women giving birth in a 3rd
World Country, the growing population, the fear towards sex education, and other contributing factors.