Reproductive Health

ROXAS CITY – Anti-Reproductive Health (RH) Bill advocates may support the vice presidential bid of Sen. Mar Roxas but will definitely campaign against Liberal Party (LP) standard bearer presidential candidate Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III and several others in May 10, 2010 election.

The apparent lack of access to reproductive health services in the Philippines hampers development, according to an envoy.

MANILA, Philippines – President Arroyo will not stop Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral from distributing contraceptive pills amid strong opposition from the Catholic Church and other sectors, deputy presidential spokesperson Charito Planas said yesterday.

Malacañang, apparently defying the country’s influential bishops, on Thursday said that it would allow the Department of Health (DOH) to continue with free distribution of condoms but that the agency could approach the Cabinet if it wanted to reconcile conflicting policies.

MANILA, Philippines – It was condoms on Valentine’s Day, and now it’s contraceptive pills. Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral clarified yesterday that the government plans to give the contraceptive pills only to interested couples.

INTRAVENOUS illegal drug users have been included in a campaign against the spread of HIV/AIDS in Cebu City, a health official said.

At a recent forum organized by the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines, the people who want to lead this country into the future took turns lambasting the Department of Health for distributing condoms in line with its HIV/AIDS prevention program last Valentines Day at the Dangwa terminal, Metro Manila’s main flower market.

Congress once more did not enact the RH bill into law but its advocates are still bent on pushing for its passage sometime in the future. Apparently the foreign groups out to impose its agenda of controlling the world population have not yet given up on this idea despite so many years of frustrations. In…

MANILA, Philippines – Government health authorities will distribute free condoms today to customers of flower shops in Manila’s Dangwa Flower Market, reversing a nine-year-old policy against the promotion of artificial birth control.

The number of Filipinos shying away from saying “till death do as part” rose between 1980 and 2000, according to the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB).

CEBU, Philippines – The government had spent more than four million pesos for family planning seminars in Central Visayas in 2007 and 2008, but it was found out that the project was “not effective” because there were only 3,123 out of the 32,000 couples targeted who had attended the classes.

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SINGAPORE: Longer lifespans, falling fertility rates and growing ranks of elderly people in Asia can pose problems as serious as the impact of climate change, a leading expert warned Monday.

MANILA, Philippines – With only one session left today, the House of Representatives has shelved the Church-opposed reproductive health bill.

Manila (25 January 2010) – The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) vowed to continue its services on Reproductive Health (RH) and Family Planning to all its union members and non-union members at the workplace .

THE reproductive health bill appeared dead after Senator Benigno Aquino III, the last presidential candidate favoring it, on Friday withdrew his support of the measure, and apparently following pressure from the powerful Catholic Church.

MANILA, Philippines – Presidential candidate Senator Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III has softened his stand on the Reproductive Health (RH) bill.

The Department of Health has  pressed for the passage of the much-debated reproductive health bill amid the alarming increase of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) cases in the country.

CEBU, Philippines – The Philippines must learn from Thailand which is now having a surplus of classrooms after it was able to successfully manage its population.

CEBU, Philippines – The Commission on Population-7 stands firm in support for the controversial Reproductive Health (RH) bill pending at the House of Representatives, saying it is needed to help ease the country’s population problem.

MANILA, Philippines – An official of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) yesterday expressed hope administration presidential candidate Gilbert Teodoro’s withdrawal of support for the controversial Reproductive Health (RH) bill is sincere and not merely to get on the Church’s good side.

Tagaytay City (27 January) — A 3-day project implementers’ monitoring and planning workshop on Reproductive Health (RH) and Family Planning was successfully conducted here recently.

MANILA, Philippines – Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman is optimistic that the next Congress would pass the Reproductive Health and Population Development Bill. “This is not the end of the road for the RH bill,” he said.

Manila (26 January) — The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) vowed to continue its services on Reproductive Health (RH) and Family Planning to all its union members and non-union members at the workplace.

SO-CALLED F’K buddies (Fubu) mark sexual and romantic relations of call-center workers polled by the University of the Philippines (UP) Population Institute.

The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has called on Filipinos not to vote for candidates supporting the controversial Reproductive Health (RH) bill.

MANILA, Philippines – Filipino women still have babies who are unwanted or unplanned despite a steady increase in contraceptive use in the last 30 years, according to a government survey.

THE 132 authors of the Reproductive Health bill have promised to block the passage of tax measures and Constitutional Convention bills being rushed by the House leadership in the last nine days of session, and after the House leadership removed the population control measure from the list of priority bills.

(Editor’s note: In the first part, Father Gaston shows how worldwide the total fertility rate has declined, with richer countries having more older people than young people. He explains that in general, a total fertility rate, or children per woman, of 2.1 is necessary to replace a country’s population. In the Philippines, where mortality rates…

Worldwide decline in total fertility rate and aging “Remember the population bomb? The new threat to the planet is not too many people but too few.”