Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos denounced a bill on Monday a bill to make sex education compulsory in schools in this Catholic country, accusing him of promoting masturbation in young children.
He undertook to oppose his veto to the text if he was approved by the Congress, accusing the movement “Woke” of being at the origin of an idea which he described as “odious” and “ridiculous”.
“During the weekend, I finally read in detail the 1979 Senate bill. I was shocked and dismayed by some of his elements, “Ferdinand Marcos told the press. “You will teach four -year -old children to masturbate. That each child has the right to try different sexualities. It’s ridiculous. If this bill is adopted in this form, I guarantee all parents, teachers and children that I will immediately put my veto. ”
Fight a high level of pregnancies
The parliamentarians, who defend the bill on “prevention of pregnancy among adolescent girls”, say that to make sex education compulsory in schools would contribute to fighting the high rate of pregnancies in adolescent girls, as well as against sexual assault on minors.
The Senate bill aims to make a “complete sex education” compulsory adapted to the age of students in schools, which is “medically exact, culturally sensitive, based on rights, inclusive and non -discriminatory”.
Sex education was integrated into the program of public schools for students aged 10 to 19 in 2012, but private schools, many of which are managed by the Catholic Church, are not required to teach it.
No reference to this early masturbation
The text does not mention masturbation anywhere in four years, but its opponents say that it follows guidelines published by UNESCO and the World Health Organization (WHO) in matters of sex education, which approach the issue of masturbation.
The debate on the text has not yet been scheduled in Parliament, according to the team of its main author, the Senator Risa Honvieros. It is therefore unlikely that it will be adopted before the end of the current legislature, before the May 12 elections.
The Philippines are one of the last countries, with the Vatican, to prohibit divorce. The country of Southeast Asia does not officially recognize marriages between people of the same sex.
