Medical decisions that mean life or death can be denied to you in the Philippines simply because you're queer. It is illegal to decide for your queer partner. Hospitals can only give this right to the next-of-kin and/or legal spouses, even if it is against your partner's wishes.
This is the injustice that the Right to Care card seeks to remedy in a country where a decades-old SOGIE (Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Expression) Equality Bill has yet to be passed into law, making civil unions that can give partner rights to LGBTQ couples in the country illegal.
