Where Has The Respect Gone?

Last Friday, my wife and I visited our barangay health center to have a checkup on our youngest daughter. The attendant midwife asked my wife, "What family planning method do you use?" Before she could even answer the question, the attendant said, "You should better have a ligation procedure." Then she asked how old our eldest is. When my wife said, "Five," she immediately answered back, "Some even had their ligation when their eldest was already two years old." Hmm...What's the connection? What does she want to prove?

I thought the government offers all kinds of family planning methods, including NFP and artificial? What's with the sterilization procedure? Why was the attendant so anxious to promote tubal ligation? She did not even bother to ask whether it is okay with us, and whether we are Catholics. Where has the respect gone? And where are the pills, IUDs, and condoms that the RH Bill always promote, trying to convince the people that it just gives couples the choice when to have their next child? Would there even be a next after sterilization? And where are the natural family planning methods?

But the biggest question still is, "Where is their respect?" It was very rude of them to tell us what method we should choose. We did not even ask their advise or opinion, and yet they were trying to choose for us!

It only proves that the concept of the so-called reproductive health makes a person stupid, insensitive, and shameless.