L5.2.2: Legal Basis of Family Planning

• Administrative Order 50-A — POLICY

  ○ National Family Planning Policy

  ○ Stipulates the Philippine Family Planning Program (PFPP)

  ○ Prescribes the key policies for Family Planning services

  ○ This policy refocuses FP as a health intervention that will promote the health of all Filipinos by preventing high risk & unplanned pregnancies.

  ○ The POLICY that defines the program — dumbed down ver.
• Considerations for HIGH RISK PREGNANCY

  1.. Too young or too old

  2. Has 4 or more pregnancies

  3. Concurrently ill (Anemia)

  4. Closely-spaced pregnancies.
• What results when high risk & unplanned pregnancies are prevented?

  ● Promotion of women’s reproductive rights

  ● Prevention of abortion

  ● Reduced maternal deaths

  ● Promotion of responsible Parenthood