The Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012 (Republic Act No. 10354), informally known as the Reproductive Health Law or RH Law, is a law in the Philippines, which guarantees universal access to methods on contraception, fertility control, sexual education, and maternal care.
While there is general agreement about its provisions on maternal and child health, there is great debate on its mandate that the Philippine government and the private sector will fund and undertake widespread distribution of family planning devices such as condoms, birth control pills, and IUDs, as the government continues to disseminate information on their use through all health care centers.
Passage of the legislation was controversial and …show more content…
The advantage of RH bill in the Philippines is that hopes to provide midwives for skilled attendance to childbirth and emergency obstetric care, even in geographically isolated and depressed areas. Thus, the one of the cause of maternal mortality, that arising from unattended births, will be addressed.
Pro-life groups and many professionals in the medical and nursing fields, believes that physicians and policy makers understand and respect the beliefs of patients who consider human life to be present and valuable from the moment of fertilization. Patients should be made fully aware of this information so that they consent to or refuse the use of artificial contraceptives.
Other aspects of the Bill being contested by concerned citizens include the classification of family planning supplies as essential medicine when their safety/toxicity profile and legal permissibility are questionable. This article based on …show more content…
The disadvantages of the proposed law include the presumed encroachment on the law to the revered Filipino values of abortion; the violation of religious dogma in a predominantly Catholic nation; and the allocation of limited government resources to the family planning programs.
After discerning the pros and cons of the RH Bill, it will boil down to its hidden agenda:the wealthy nations are the ones interested and benefit more from the Bill. They overuse of the world's resources at the expense of the poor counties. Rich nations. which comprise less than one-third of the world's population consume and/or waste about 2/3 of the world's resources.
Pons · 4 years ago
RH Bill 5043 SWS Survey – 71% of catholics agree with the RH Bill
Seventy-six percent of adult Filipinos want family planning education in the public schools, and 71% favor passage of the Reproductive Health (RH) Bill, according to the Third Quarter 2008 Social Weather Survey, done on September 24-27,
While there is general agreement about its provisions on maternal and child health, there is great debate on its mandate that the Philippine government and the private sector will fund and undertake widespread distribution of family planning devices such as condoms, birth control pills, and IUDs, as the government continues to disseminate information on their use through all health care centers.
Passage of the legislation was controversial and …show more content…
The advantage of RH bill in the Philippines is that hopes to provide midwives for skilled attendance to childbirth and emergency obstetric care, even in geographically isolated and depressed areas. Thus, the one of the cause of maternal mortality, that arising from unattended births, will be addressed.
Pro-life groups and many professionals in the medical and nursing fields, believes that physicians and policy makers understand and respect the beliefs of patients who consider human life to be present and valuable from the moment of fertilization. Patients should be made fully aware of this information so that they consent to or refuse the use of artificial contraceptives.
Other aspects of the Bill being contested by concerned citizens include the classification of family planning supplies as essential medicine when their safety/toxicity profile and legal permissibility are questionable. This article based on …show more content…
The disadvantages of the proposed law include the presumed encroachment on the law to the revered Filipino values of abortion; the violation of religious dogma in a predominantly Catholic nation; and the allocation of limited government resources to the family planning programs.
After discerning the pros and cons of the RH Bill, it will boil down to its hidden agenda:the wealthy nations are the ones interested and benefit more from the Bill. They overuse of the world's resources at the expense of the poor counties. Rich nations. which comprise less than one-third of the world's population consume and/or waste about 2/3 of the world's resources.
Pons · 4 years ago
RH Bill 5043 SWS Survey – 71% of catholics agree with the RH Bill
Seventy-six percent of adult Filipinos want family planning education in the public schools, and 71% favor passage of the Reproductive Health (RH) Bill, according to the Third Quarter 2008 Social Weather Survey, done on September 24-27,