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Philippines--71% of Filipino adults favor passage of Reproductive Health Bill
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by jayr_patron | October 16, 2008 at 12:28 am
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Authors of the country's reproductive health bill face tough opposition against leities and clergymen in this predominantly Christian nation. But survey says that they have the backing of the majority of Filipinos.
Seventy-one percent of Filipino adults favor the passage of the Reproductive Health Bill, while 76 percent want family planning education in public schools, the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey revealed.
The Reproductive Health, Responsible Parenthood, and Population Development Act of 2008 or House bill No. 5043 makes artificial contraceptives more accessible to the public through health programs and calls for sex education in schools, among others.
The bill, which has received strong opposition from the Catholic Church and other pro-life groups, needs 120 votes to be approved on second reading in Congress.
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at 08:08 on October 16th, 2008
jayr_patron, I like this story. I have visited some of the hospitals here in the Philippines and have noted that the family planning departments are pretty empty. So I expect we are really talking about more Filipino's are using condoms? A friends filipino wife has just had a coil inserted she was in and out, it took minutes as there was no queue.
Filipino's need to know that vacectomies do not interfere with a mans sex life, I have heard many a filipino state that they are frightened it will.
I am total for this bill as its clear to me that when you have poverty its wrong to increase the poverty by having more and more kids one can not really afford to feed or send to school. It of course also increases the poverty in the future.