While some young Filipinas in the study did not initially want their pregnancies, they say they accepted them with the belief that motherhood is a woman's most important role in society.
According to Gacad, pregnancy acceptability was more related to ideas and expectations about motherhood and the desire to make the most out of an unpleasant situation, rather than the circumstances around their decision to have sex.
“Without a clear and comprehensive vocabulary for their pleasures and their needs, adolescent girls and young women are unable to express consent and enforce their refusal. In taking an unexpected pregnancy to term, and in raising children, they limit their social or economic opportunities, while being expected to be good mothers who will put the well-being of their children above anything else,” Gacad said.
Gacad said the approach of framing teenage pregnancy as bad may not be enough to change perceptions of adolescents considering or experiencing motherhood. During the study’s launch on Tuesday, Nathalie Africa-Verceles of the University of the Philippines Center for Women’s and Gender Studies said that teenage girls must have the right to sexual and reproductive health information and services. This, according to Africa-Verceles, will not only protect them from unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections, but also unsafe abortions.
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