Pre-teen pregnancies are rising in the Philippines – critics blame the Catholic Church

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• HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s absolutely the Catholic Church. The country is incredibly Catholic. They often don’t use any form of birth control nor even tampons as it’s looked down upon. Overpopulated too

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  • CaptainProton@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Something tells me PRE-teen pregnancies are a bigger problem than whoever’s having sex with kids under-13 not using birth control.

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    • GlitterInfection@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Unless it’s pre-teens having sex with each other. Then sex education, birth control and access to reproductive rights is the issue to solve.

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    • 0110010001100010@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fuck, I read that wrong. Pre-teen would be 12 or younger right? What the actual fuck?

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    • Diplomjodler@feddit.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They’re the same people that oppose sex education and birth control

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  • awwwyissss@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Almost everywhere is overpopulated.

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    • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Have you been to the Philippines though? I met a guy who has 19 siblings

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• PaddleMaster@beehaw.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I cannot believe an article like this would use the language “girls falling pregnant”. Nobody falls pregnant.

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  • sadreality@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The real question is who is having sex the girls... Boys or adult men...

    This fact is glossed over so I am assuming adult men, which is characteristic for insular religious communities.

    So we need some rope and get the wood chipper going.

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    • PaddleMaster@beehaw.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Probably both. From my limited understanding the country is so poor, sex tourism of girls (and probably boys) has become normalized.

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  • awwwyissss@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And usually the Telegraph is such a pinnacle of good journalism 🤔

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    • Unquote0270@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They would never victim blame…

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  • Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Girls raped pregnant”

    “Girls lacking sexual education becomes pregnant”

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• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If the Catholic Church only had 100 000 members, it would be called a dangerous cult, with politicians calling for its ban.

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• Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The obsessively pro-life religion that also strongly shames people, while also not really caring for them either unless they contribute to the cause?

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• BakedGoods@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  All religions are just pedo cults.

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