RH Law

• RH Law is a law that guarantees access to methods like contraception, fertility control, sexual education, and maternal care
• RH Law mandates the Philippine Government and the private sector to fund and undertake widespread distribution of family planning devices such as: condoms, birth control pills, IUD, and on-going dissemination of information
• Ferdinand Marcos- Signed the Declaration of Population in 1967 and created the Commission on Population
• Commission on Population- created to push for smaller family and provide information and services to decrease population and lower fertility rates.
• Corazon Aquino- Focus on giving couples the right to have the number of children they prefer.
• Fidel V. Ramos- Shifted population control to population management.
• Gloria Macapagal Arroyo- Focused on natural Family planning while contraceptives are openly sold in the country.
• Benigno Aquino III- the one who endorsed the Reproductive Health Bill 10354.
• RH Law

  Law 1: To “promote all effective, natural, and modern methods of family planning that are medically safe and legal.”
• RH Law

  Law 2: That “the government shall endure that all women needing care for post-abortion complications shall be treated and counselled in a humane, non-judgemental, and compassionate manner."
• RH Law

  Law 3: IS CALLED “MULTI-DIMENSIONAL APPROACH

  • means that family planning and responsible parenthood will be included and considered in all government programs.
• RH Law

  Law 4: Health and sexuality education is required from grade five to fourth year high school using life skills and other approaches.
• RH Law

  Law 5: The national and local government will ensure the availability of reproductive health care services such as family planning and prenatal care.
• RH Law

  Law 6: Free choice regarding reproductive health to enable people, especially the poor, to have the number of children they can care and provide for.
• Rapid growth and high fertility rates, especially among the poor, exacerbate poverty and makes it harder for the government for the government to address.
• THE RESULT OF USING CONTRACEPTIVES

  1. Smaller families and wider pregnancy interval.
  2. allow families to invest more in each child’s education health, nutrition
  3. reduce poverty and hunger at the household level
• FERTILITY REDUCTION- cuts the cost of special service, with fewer people attending school and seeking medical care.
• Reproductive Health Law (R.A. 10354)- This is a law which guarantees universal access to methods on contraception, fertility control, sexual education, and maternal care
• This law mandates the Philippine government and the private sector to fund and undertake widespread distribution of family planning devices such as condoms, birth control pills, and IUDs, as well as on-going dissemination of information on their use to all health care centers.
• The history of reproductive health in the Philippines dates back to 1967 when Ferdinand Marcos signed the Declaration of Population.
• Ferdinand Marcos- created the Commission on Population to push for smaller family and provide information and services to decrease population and lower fertility rates.
• • Ferdinand Marcos pushed for a systematic distribution of contraceptives all over the country.
• The Corazon Aquino Administration focused on giving couples the right to have the number of children they prefer.
• Fidel Ramos shifted from population control to population management.
• Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo focused on natural family planning while contraceptives are openly sold in the country.
• Benigno Aquino III endorsed Reproductive Health Bill 10354.
• Reproductive Health Bill 10354.

  1. The bill mandates the government to "promote all effective, natural, and modern methods of family planning that are medically safe and legal."
• Reproductive Health Bill 10354.

  2. The bill further states that "the government shall ensure that all women needing care for post-abortion complications shall be treated and counseled in a humane, non-judgmental, and compassionate manner."
• Reproductive Health Bill 10354.

  3. The bill calls for a "multi-dimensional approach" and integrates family planning and responsible parenthood into all government anti-poverty programs."
• Reproductive Health Bill 10354.

  4. Health and sexuality education is required from grade five to fourth year high school using life skills and other approaches.
• Reproductive Health Bill 10354.

  5. The national and local government will ensure the availability of reproductive health care services such as family planning and prenatal care.
• Reproductive Health Bill 10354.

  6. Free choice regarding reproductive health to enable people, especially the poor, to have the number of children they can care and provide for.
• Reproductive Health Bill 10354.

  7. Rapid population growth and high fertility rates, especially among the poor, exacerbate poverty and makes it harder for the government to address it, according to economists Solita Monsod, Gerardo Sicat, Cayetano Paderanga, Ernesto Pernia, and Stella Alabastro Quimbo.
• Reproductive Health Bill 10354.

  8. Smaller families and wider pregnancy intervals resulting from the use of contraceptives allow families to invest more in each child's education health, nutrition, and eventually reduce poverty and hunger at the household level.

  Fertility reduction cuts the cost of special service, with fewer people attending school and seeking medical care.
• The five following economists who illustrated the connection between rapid population growth and poverty by comparing the economic growth and population are Solita Monsod, Gerardo Sicat, Cayetano Paderanga, Ernesto Pernia, and Stella Alabastro Quimbo.