in the year 2050 if the current annual population growth is maintained at about 2.0%. The Reproductive Health bill, or popularly known as RH bill, is Philippine Bill aiming to guarantee universal access to methods and information on birth control and maternal care. It is a way of helping people to be more advance, well prepared, and to widen up each and every individuals mind setting about our society nowadays. The bill mandates the government to “promote, without bias, all effective natural and
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setting about our society now a day. There is this top agreement about its provisions on maternal and child health care, there is great debate on its proposal that we taxpayer and the private sector will fund and undertake widespread distribution of family planning devices such as birth control pills (BCPs) and IUDs, and as the government continue campaigning to broadcast a good information and effect on its use through health care centers nationwide. Everyone has been talking about this RH law, for
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SUPPORT THE RH BILL IN GOOD CONSCIENCE (Position paper on the Reproductive Health Bill by individual faculty* of the Ateneo de Manila University) (Note: The opinions expressed in this paper are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of other faculty. Neither do they represent the official position of the Ateneo de Manila University nor the Society of Jesus.) We, individual faculty of the Ateneo de Manila University, call for the immediate passage of House Bill 5043 on “Reproductive
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a volunteer nurse but a contrast that nurses situation here in the Philippines was unlikely to other countries such United States of America and European countries that can always get a job right away after graduated. Since, the situation Thinking about living permanently in the Philippines? there are a lot of
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Reproductive Health Bill became one of the crucial, sensitive and serious issues in our country. In fact it made a divisive chapter in our history where many individuals had an intense debate that led to partition. The President Aquino Administration pellucidly showed its persistent support to the said bill while other religious groups, particularly the Catholic Church, strongly opposed it. The Catholic Church is against the passage of the RH law which promotes both natural and artificial family
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WWF, says is, “consuming more resources than its ecosystems can sustain, threatening the future of the region’s beleaguered forests, rivers, and oceans as well as the livelihoods of those who depend on them.” In an effort to help address this issue, stakeholders have sought to offer various methods to stabilize, and even inhibit population growth. In 1971, the Population Act passed into law, whereupon family planning was seen as a strategy for national development. Under Corazon Aquino’s administration
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July 8, 2013 Bishop Soc Villegas heads CBCP Villegas to pursue fight against RH law The protégé of the late Jaime Cardinal Sin, Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates “Soc” Villegas, was elected president of the influential Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) on Sunday amid a continuing conflict between the Church and the Aquino administration on the controversial reproductive health (RH) law. At 52, Villegas will lead the 96 active and 40 honorary members of the bishops’ collegial
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Chapter I THE PROBLEM Introduction “Arming the youth with information,” one of the goals of the Reproductive Health Bill. In line with one of the two targets of Goal 5 - Improving Maternal Health - of the eight Millennium Development Goals which is achieving universal access to reproductive health by 2015. To achieve its goals, the bill provides for mandatory reproductive health education and that it be taught in "an age-appropriate manner... by adequately trained teachers starting from Grade
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(NSO, 2001). Side by side with rapid population growth is poverty, which still grips about a third of the country's 15.3 million households (NSO, 2001a). This Country Report is timely in that it revisits the link between population/development and poverty, environment, and resources. The Report has two purposes. First, it intends to review the Philippine population/development situation, including issues of reproductive health and gender equity, from the perspective of goals affirmed in the
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often have diminished autonomy. According to this kind of conception, a person’s beliefs, desires, choices, decisions, etc. are autonomous when they fulfil certain procedural criteria. As the above quotation suggests, there can be different views about exactly how these criteria should be formulated. I would however argue that all plausible procedural theories of individual autonomy accept at least the following requirements. If a person’s behavior results from such things as compulsion and weakness
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