Answer the following questions and post your answers here. Cite references if possible.
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What is your opinion about the practice of family planning? Are you for it or against it?
I support the practice family planning because it promotes parenthood preparedness, it promotes financial preparedness, and it promotes the planning of the family’s future. We cannot deny that the youth now produce numerous unintentional pregnancy, single parenting, teenage pregnancy, and some even terminate pregnancy or abandon children. With proper family planning practiced by even younger couples can prevent these problems. Educating them about this may promote reflection on what might happen and think about the possible consequences. Second, Filipinos are known to have huge families because of numerous children. With this, we should also ensure that the family is aware of the financial responsibility it should provide. With family planning, the couple may consider providing gaps in between children to plan their finances. In relation to this, it may promote the planning for their future by looking what they want in the future. For example, they may reflect on how can they provide tertiary education to their children at the same time. They may also reflect on can they take care of them all responsibly while growing up.
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Are you in favor of the Reproductive Health Law and its provisions? Elaborate your answer.
I support this law for it helps the information and implementation of good reproductive health. It helps in maintaining the production and use of safe, high, accessible, and affordable reproductive health services and products. This is important because it will maintain the proper implementation of the law. It was also said that natural family planning experts shall provide necessary training for BHWs. This will ensure that even on the barangay levels, knowledge about reproductive health could be ensured. It also includes the implementation of education families about family planning, responsible parenthood, breast feeding, and infant nutrition. Lastly, It also reminds businesses to exercise prudence when advertising products and services related to reproductive health in all media forms. This is to protect the children from being exposed to unsafe content especially while watching television and browsing in the internet.
References:
Philippine Commission on Women (n.d.). Republic Act 10354: The Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012. Retrieved on March 22, 2022, from https://pcw.gov.ph/republic-act-10354/?msclkid=ee516f24a98f11ec9c58a8bb87d51633.