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What is your opinion about the practice of family planning? Are you for it or against it?
Family planning allows people to attain their desired number of children, if any, and to determine the spacing of their pregnancies (WHO, n.d). I am for it. Because I believe that every child born in this world should be wanted and loved. And one of the best ways to ensure that is through family planning. With this, the parents can plan and choose when they think they are already prepared to have a child and they would also have some time to prepare for it physically, mentally, emotionally, and financially while not sacrificing their physical intimacy with each other. Moreover, it would also lessen the maternal mortality rate in the Philippines and also the illegal abortion.
In addition to this, it would also lessen the uncared children. Because when one of the parents is not ready for the responsibility of having a child, it is the child that will take all the burden, when in fact he or she didn’t even ask to be born in the first place.
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Are you in favor of the Reproductive Health Law and its provisions? Elaborate your answer.
I used to believe that Reproductive Health Law is all about killing the unborn child. I even used to criticize my classmate before because her favorite color is purple, which is the color for RH law. However, upon learning what it really means, I realize that this law when properly executed would be beneficial to our country. It is because it aims to provided universal access to methods on contraception, fertility control, sexual education, and maternal care in the Philippines. Moreover, teenage pregnancy rate in our country is still high, and I think that one of the major causes of this is that teenagers are not properly aware about sex education and since contraception is still a taboo in our country, they also do not have a chance to use it. In addition, RH law could lessen the babies born from unwanted pregnancies that would end up being not properly taken care of because one or both parents are not ready for a whole life responsibility of being a father or a mother.
Reference:
World Health Organization (n.d.). Contraception. Retrieved from https://www.who.int/health-topics/contraception#tab=tab_1