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THE CYCLE OF POVERTY AND PREGNANCY

The cycle of poverty and pregnancy

By Erik De Castro

OCTOBER 2, 2012

By Erik de CastroBIRTH CONTROL | CATHOLIC | PHILIPPINES | PHOTOGRAPHY | POLITICS | RELIGION

It was a few minutes before 6 a.m. when I arrived at the dwelling of Liza Cabiya-an, 39, and her 14 children. Liza was pouring coffee on a plate of rice as her five small children, including her youngest 11-month-old baby, huddled on the floor around her waiting to be served their breakfast. On a good day, Liza says breakfast would be pan de sal, or the classic Filipino salt bread, which they dip into hot instant coffee.

While the small children have their breakfast, Liza’s nine other children were still asleep, shoulder-to-shoulder, in a room of approximately 9-square meters.

The only appliances they have are the television and a DVD player. The glassless window provides natural ventilation to the space. Liza’s family lives on the third floor of a three-story tenement in a slum neighborhood in Paco, in the Philippines capital Manila. I had to go up a narrow wooden ladder to reach their dwelling. Residents of the tenement share the same toilet, which is on the second floor. Liza complains that there are nights when they have to endure the stink of the toilet, which is not regularly cleaned.

“Life is hard with so many children but we still try to have fun,” says Liza as she turns on the TV, inserts a music CD in the DVD player and, as if on cue, the little kids start to dance. The noise wakes up the rest of the brood. “I still remember the names and birthdays of each of them,” Liza boasts with a grin, revealing her decaying teeth. After a while, she turns off the music and half-jokingly says, “That’s it for now. Too much activity will make them hungry again.”

While I took snapshots of the family, Liza told her story. She works as a part-time house help and laundry woman. She can’t accept full time work because she still has very young children to take care of. Her husband, a construction worker, comes home only on weekends. Her grown up children – the eldest at 22 – help augment the family income by scavenging, selling rice cakes and working as part-time house helps as well. All children are physically small for their age, most likely because of lack of nourishment. Only five of her children are also in school, most of them in elementary education.

Liza’s situation is a common condition of most poor families in Metro Manila. A lot of them come from the provinces with the false hopes of finding better jobs in the capital. With no money to pay for rent, most of them settle in slum areas, including riverbanks and creek sides, which are often flooded during the rainy season.

Not far away from their neighborhood, at Baseco compound in Tondo, Manila, there is a small drug store that sells birth control pills and condoms. “Look, we have plenty of stocks because nobody buys them. Most people here don’t have the budget for these because they would rather spend on food,” says the drug store attendant. A village watchman who himself has 10 children said it is rare to find families in the area with few children.

Also located in Manila is the government maternity hospital, Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital, where you can find about 300 mothers and their newborns in the ward. As you walk through its halls, pregnant women lining up for prenatal check ups and mothers carrying their newborns are a common sight. Such scenes and the smell of breast milk makes me liken the place to a baby factory, which indeed, has become synonymous with this hospital.

As I was going down the wooden ladder from Liza’s home, a woman named Elsie called out to me from the porthole of her family’s room, asking me to also take pictures of her family. Elsie says she has 10 children but gave up four for adoption. “They have a good life now, they don’t get hungry anymore,” she said happily.

I am a Catholic but I don’t understand the opposition of the bishops to the reproductive health bill in the Philippine Congress, which would provide access to free contraceptives for poor women like Liza and Elsie.

In the years I have been working as a photojournalist, I have encountered stories of poverty even more heartbreaking than theirs. Most of the time, it is the big families who are in such situations, and they have the same stories about not being able to afford family planning. Just like how an umbilical cord connects the mother and baby, poverty and family size are also linked. Those who oppose the bill should visit these places so they can see for themselves how wanting in free family planning services these poor families are. The inhumane living condition of these people is more controversial than the issues they raise about the bill.

When I was a teenager, I remember a slogan on streamers posted on streets in northern Philippines, promoting family planning. It says, “Talo nga anak okey daytoyin” (Three kids in a family is very good). If most families were able to exercise that, perhaps women like Liza and Elsie and their families would have a better shot at quality life.

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Philippines birth control: Filipinos want it, priests don't

In the Philippines, access to contraceptives is limited for the most part to those with the means to pay. The Catholic Church has fought a "reproductive health bill" in the legislature that would change that.

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Women share beds after giving birth at Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital in Manila. The Philippine capital is one of the most densely populated places on Earth. A ban on contraception at public clinics there has put birth control out of the reach of most of the city's poor. (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times) More photos

By Kenneth R. Weiss, Los Angeles Times

July 22, 2012

Last of five parts

MANILA — Shortly after sunrise, a woman with soulful eyes and short-cropped black hair hurried down a narrow alley in flip-flops, picking her way around clusters of squatting children, piles of trash and chunks of concrete.

Yolanda Naz's daily scramble had begun. Peddling small shampoo packets in the shantytown of San Andres, she raced to earn enough money to feed her eight children.

She went door to door in the sweltering heat, charming and cajoling neighbors into parting with a few pesos. After several hours, she had scrounged enough to buy a kilo of rice, a few eggs and a cup of tiny shrimp.

"My husband and I skip lunch if there is no money," Naz said as she dished rice and shrimp sauce into eight plastic bowls in the 10-by-12-foot room where the family eats and sleeps.

This was not the life Naz wanted. She and her husband, who sells coconut drinks from a pushcart, agreed early in their marriage to stop at three children. Though a devout Catholic, she took birth control pills in defiance of priests' instructions at Sunday Mass.

But after her third child was born, the mayor of Manila — with the blessing of Roman Catholic bishops — halted the distribution of contraceptives at public clinics to promote "a culture of life." The order put birth control pills and other contraceptives out of reach for millions of poor Filipinos, who could not afford to buy them at private pharmacies.

"For us, the banning of the pills was ugly," Naz said. "We were the ones who suffered."

At 36, she had more children than teeth, common for poor women after repeated pregnancies and breast-feeding.

Undernourished and living in close quarters, her children were often sick. Measles was sweeping through the shantytown, afflicting two of Naz's sons and her 3-year-old daughter, Jasmine, who hung like a rag doll from her mother's arms.

"I pray to God. I pray really, really hard," she said. "Should God decide to take my kids, just don't let them suffer."

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Fierce debate over Philippine contraception bill

By Kate McGeownBBC News, Manila

Nurse Christina shows the conditions at Jose Fabella Hospital in Manila

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In one of Manila's sprawling slums, Clarita is busy making lunch for her family.

She has 10 children and making sure they do not go hungry is a daily struggle.

Down a narrow alleyway another desperately poor woman has eight children. Another woman just round the corner has nine.

It is hardly surprising then that the Philippines has the highest birth rate in South East Asia. In 1990 there were 60 million Filipinos. Now there are more than 95 million.

Like her neighbours and more than 80% of the population, Clarita is a Catholic.

She regularly attends church and has a picture of Jesus Christ and a bible verse taped on to the wall of the one small room in which the family live.

But recently she has begun to think that, on one matter at least, the Church is wrong.

"I used to believe in the Church's teachings about having lots of children," she says.

"But now I really think we should have family planning."

'Happily out of step'

In theory, it is easy to get contraception in the Philippines. You can buy the female pill over the counter at any pharmacy and virtually every corner shop sells condoms.

But for someone like Clarita, these options are far too expensive. A packet of condoms would cost her almost as much as her weekly food bill.

Bishop Teodoro Bacani says the government should not be promoting family planning

That is why the government has put forward a reproductive health bill that includes a provision to give out free contraception and family planning advice to couples that want it.

But the bill is facing fierce opposition from the Church.

"It's not the business of government to be promoting contraceptive devices," says Bishop Teodoro Bacani.

"It's like the government saying it will pass a law which will fund the promotion of pork-eating among the Muslims. Can you imagine what an uproar there would be among the Muslim population?"

While many Catholic countries are debating whether to allow abortion, that issue is not under discussion here. Everyone in this debate knows that a bill to legalise abortion would have little support.

This is purely about contraception, which according to many senior bishops is almost as bad as abortion anyway, because anything that prevents a sperm meeting an egg prevents a potential birth.

Bishop Bacani said he realised the Philippines was out of step with the rest of the world, saying: "We are… and happily so."

This is not a belief that is confined to the clergy. Many senior members of society - politicians, media commentators, businessmen - are openly siding with the bishops.

And every Sunday, churches are packed with people listening to the message from the pulpit - and frequently that message involves the reproductive health bill.

'Refuse to hear'

But supporters of the bill say you only need to go into a government-run hospital to see why the country simply cannot cope with so many births.

In the Jose Fabella Hospital, near Manila's seafront, there can sometimes be more than 200 women and their babies in a ward - and often two or even three women have to share a bed.

Maternity wards at the Jose Fabella Hospital are full of new mothers

"Mothers just lie down alternately - one will sit, the other will lie down," says Christina, one of only three nurses on the ward.

It is understandable why, in October, the United Nations chose the hospital as one of several locations around the world to mark the birth of the seven billionth baby.

This is not an issue which has caught Philippine politicians unaware. The bill currently being debated in Congress is the fourth family planning proposal that has has been put forward.

The other three times, the Church and its political allies managed to block the plans from ever becoming law.

But supporters of the bill hope that, this time, the situation will be different.

In the past, the sitting president was either against contraception or tried to abstain from such a controversial debate. But President Benigno Aquino is one of the main backers of the current bill.

Speaking of his own Catholic faith, Mr Aquino said: "We're taught that when you come before the Almighty, you will be asked: 'What have you done to the least of your brethren?'

"I cannot in good conscience say we saw the problem and we refused to see it, we refused to talk about it, we refused to hear it. That would be criminal, against the oath that I subscribe to. That would be against the teachings of the Church I belong to."

Mother-of-10 Clarita says she thinks contraception is needed in the Philippines

It is a risky strategy for the president to take. He insists he does not want an argument with the Church, but he looks set to have one all the same. The bishops have vowed to fight the bill to the bitter end.

And they have an important, if slightly unexpected, ally in the champion boxer-turned-congressman Manny Pacquiao, who says contraception is against God's will and that it will not get people out of poverty - only stamping out corruption can do that.

His argument may have been undermined somewhat by his wife Jinkee's admission that she has been taking birth-control pills, but it is impossible to understate Manny Pacquiao's influence in the Philippines.

He is without a doubt the most famous person in the country - his face shines down from many of Manila's advertising hoardings, and some of his fans treat him like a demigod.

So the reproductive health bill is now dividing Church and state, and pitting the president against the most popular person in the country.

As every nuance is debated in parliament, Philippine Catholics know that somehow, they need to find a way to reconcile their faith with the reality of life for the country's poor.

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Dispelling Myths, Advocating Truths: Men’s Role in Reproductive Health**Rey T. Uy*
2012-02-01

Reproductive health is a civil right. In a man’s point of view, it is not only a right but a huge responsibility to bear. It is in this premise that the state should take a serious stance on the issue of reproductive health. The growing nexus between a ballooning population and the dismal state of poverty in the Philippines should alarm us all - from government officials down to the ordinary folks. The waves of friendly and sometimes fiery debate between two opposing sides should not really be a force to divide us, rather it should help us dispel myths and advocate the truth.

The Reproductive Health Bill had been a very serious topic of national debate. It is just high time that we elevate the level of our intellectual discourse and come face-to-face with the issues at hand.

We can never get out from the picture of the looming state of poverty in the country. This is probably best explained by the growing number of our population and our inability to get the majority of them, most especially men, to be employed to support their respective families.

One of the current thrusts of my administration is to elevate the state of living of my constituents and to break the bonds of poverty—like many of our local chief executives’ dream for their people. To realize this, we took a bold step to materialize our aspirations.

In the City of Tagum, I am very proud to share that we have bannered a local reproductive health program that sets the balance between men’s and women’s right to a better reproductive health they rightfully deserve. We have been able to accommodate the desire of numerous men to submit themselves to a no-scalpel vasectomy for free, courtesy of the local government and the Marie Stopes Foundation, a civic society organization that supports this cause.

This has magnified the local government-CSO participation in championing this advocacy. It complements the free tubal ligation procedure offered to the women in our city who believed they had enough children. This is anchored on the premise that our actions should be proactive rather than reactive. By doing this program, we do not only grant their right to a better reproductive health but we are also doing our city, this country and this world a great favor.

The result of this program had been monumental. Our city was not included among the recipients of the current government’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (Conditional Cash Transfer) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). The DSWD cited our low poverty incidence rate at 15.42%, as stipulated in the department’s National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction Program. The national poverty incidence rate is estimated around 27%.

This is another significant breakthrough for our city - thanks in part to our local reproductive health program. The substantial connection between reproductive health and poverty reduction is indeed very evident.
So what makes it successful by then? Two words: Political Will.

An approach that focuses on men as clients deals with the great need to provide men of their reproductive health services. But still many were not sold out to the idea of vasectomy, in our city’s case. The challenge is how do we make reproductive health services be palatable to men?

The answer is simple: we should emphasize men’s important role in ensuring wellness for themselves, their wives and their respective families. The government should be consistent and true in pioneering reproductive health services that focus on men. The interventions that involve men as agents of positive change, however, are relatively few. The state should increase men’s informed choices, their possibilities for learning and development, and the survival and well-being of family members.

The issue of reproductive health is a very sensitive issue, especially to the Roman Catholic Church. While many of the men in the pulpits would oppose the passage of the Reproductive Health Bill into a national law citing that the state cannot legislate morality, it is but right for the government to not be bullied by the church.

First, this bill seeks to uphold people’s right to reproductive health which will contribute to solve our problem on poverty—a thing that has not been either solved by the church. There is still a big room though to settle down things and build a consensus but both parties cannot deny that poverty is rising and time is ticking.

The shape of our future will depend heavily on the decisions we make and the action we are taking today. The time is now for us to be serious and get real.

Men, along with women, must work hand-in-hand to curse poverty through the implementation of a best reproductive health program. But I would like to put emphasis that above all parties involved, it should be the men who should take the first step towards the realization of this goal. That way, we will be able to ensure a better future for our children’s children and for the future generations.

* Hon. Rey Uy is the City Mayor of Tagum, Davao Del Norte, who is also the LCP’s Regional Representative for Region IX. For more information, contact Office of the City Mayor at (084) 217-3688 or (084) 218-1957. 

** This article is first published in the Population Chronicle. Men and Reproductive Health, an LCP publication for the ongoing United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)-supported Reproductive Health and Commodity Security Project. The opinions expressed herein are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect the views of LCP and UNFPA.    

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