Under Senate Bill 1334 or Prevention of Adolescent Pregnancy Act of 2020, Sen. Risa Hontiveros says comprehensive sexuality education will teach students about family planning methods, including natural and scientific. This can be incorporated in other subjects | @mrvinceangelo
Sen. Hontiveros adds the the bill would also have a community-based program to orient parents and guardians on teenage sexuality | @mrvinceangelo
Sen. Hontiveros: I consulted Globe and Smart [...] They are willing to participate as private sectors in the promotion of comprehensive sexuality education through text messages | @mrvinceangelo
Senate President Vicente Sotto: I doubt that this will be easily implemented, considering that the stakeholders of this bill are limited sector of the society, which include the adolescents, their parents or guardians | @mrvinceangelo
Sen. Hontiveros: Actually, they would probably be targeting a wider audience than contemplated by the good gentlemen, in addition to the adolescents who are in fact a big percentage of cellphone users | @mrvinceangelo
Sen. Hontiveros: We are also speaking in this bill of the teachers, guidance counselors, and education supervisors. We are also speaking community members at large in local government units | @mrvinceangelo
SP Sotto: Yes, it will be wide and it will be irritating to many. Because there are 129,714,398 prepaid subscribers in the country. And they will blast all of them? They will not be able to determine who among them are adolescents, parents, or teachers | @mrvinceangelo
SP Sotto: Our government right now, through the NTC, is stopping our telcos for information dissemination on rainfall warning or earthquake alerts | @mrvinceangelo
SP Sotto: I don't think sexual education is similar with these natural hazards, for our government to ask the assistance of our telcos in conducting information dissemination | @mrvinceangelo
Sen. Hontiveros: Apparently, our public education efforts so far are not enough. A couple of years ago, there were 183,000 live births to adolescent women. That probably accounts for even more young lives, if not, stopped by death or injury | @mrvinceangelo
Sen. Hontiveros: A text blast is only one possible strategy | @mrvinceangelo
Sen. Hontiveros says countries like Rwanda and Côte d'Ivoire have used text blasts in information dissemination on teenage pregnancies | @mrvinceangelo
SP Sotto: Eh kung COVID nga wala tayong text blast eh [...] Because ayaw ng mga telcos 'yan, it's irritating to some people | @mrvinceangelo
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