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MAPEH 10 – HEALTH 4.

Health and sexuality education is required from


Lesson 1: Reproductive Health Act of 2012 grade five to grade ten students using life skills and
or RH Law R.A 10354 other approaches.
5. The national and local government will ensure the
This is a law which guaranteed universal access to availability of reproductive healthcare services
methods on contraception, fertility control, sexual such as family planning and parental care.
education, and maternal care 6. Free choice regarding reproductive health to
This law mandates Philippine government and the enable people, especially the poor, to have a
private sector to fund and undertake widespread number of children they can care and provide for.
distribution of family planning devices such as condoms, 7. Rapid population growth and high fertility rates,
birth control pills, and IUDs, as well as on-going especially among the poor, exacerbate poverty and
dissemination of information on their use to all health care makes it harder for the government to address it.
centers. 8. Smaller family and wider pregnancy intervals
The history of reproductive health in the Philippines resulting from the use of contraceptives allow
dates back to 1967 when Ferdinand Marcos signed the families to invest more in each child’s education,
‘Declaration of Population’ health, nutrition, and eventually reduce poverty and
He created the Commission on Population to push hunger at the household level.
for smaller family and provided 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

R.A 10354
1. The bill mandates the government to “promote all
effective, natural, and modern methods of family
planning that are medically safe and legal.”
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.”
3. The bill calls for a “multi- dimensional
approach” and integrates family planning and
responsible parenthood into all government anti-
poverty programs.

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