Another celebrity who has the support of the RH Bill is Jose Sixto G. Dantes (also know as Ding-Dong Dantes of GMA) where he was invited to be a guest to be interviewed on the Arnold Clavio’s talk show last February 2010. His official statement during the interview is as follows:
"I am for a Well-Informed and Empowered Filipino Youth" (Dantes, 2011)
Mr. Dantes said that about “Forty-four percent (44.3%) of all pregnancies in the Philippines are unplanned, because of the lack of information on family planning services,” states a 2003 NDHS study by the NSO. Meanwhile, the Allan Guttmacher Institute puts the “incidence of induced abortion in the country at around 500,000 annually.”
“Reproductive health education in schools becomes all the more imperative, especially when young people, in a 2002 Young Adult Fertlity and Sexuality Study 3 conducted by the UP Population Institute & Demographic Institute Research Dev’t. Foundation, showed that only one in every five youth (or 15.7%) freely discuss in their homes issues about sex,” asserted by a group of faculty members at the Ateneo De Manila University.
“Proper birth spacing reduces the risk of death for newborns and infants by fifty percent (50%),” the World Health Organization (WHO) concludes.
More, he said during the interview that he wholeheartedly supports to RH bill 4244 because he made sure that he really knows all the principles and intentions of the bill.
He believes that there exists a greater and larger issues that has a heavier weight for the “bill’s immediate passage”, he continues to say that allowing the constant rise of induced abortions is something he cannot tolerate because of his conscience and that fifty percent of them are pregnancies that are not planned because of the lack of information.
Furthermore, he said that he cannot think of a better way on how to protect the youth from the effects of being alienated to their sexuality, as well as the threat of becoming restless with their sexual acts other than making them fully understand the ways to invest on their reproductive health.
“Because I firmly believe on the need to continuously empower the youth, through the power of education.”
Immorality and irresponsibility will be who we are as citizens of our country if we do not do anything. He also says that he admires the Advocacy of the RH bill and all the other affiliated groups who supports the bill’s cause, for remaining a steadfast in its aims even if they face so many institutional pressures.
Lastly, Mr. Ding Dong Dantes that he gives high respect for all the women who are currently on their strong stand as of now, they do it not only for themselves, but they consider the holistic being and welfare of all the women in our country.
Source:
http://filipinasinshowbiz.com/index/2011/04/08/rh-bill-gets-support-from-dingdong-dantes/
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