Laws Governing the Practice of Family Planning in the Philippines
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What is your opinion about the practice of family planning? Are you for it or against it?
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I am totally in favor of family planning. At the very least, it means that less families will have unplanned pregnancies which would lead to better allocation of time and resources to children already living.
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Are you in favor of the Reproductive Health Law and its provisions? Elaborate your answer.
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I believe that the RH law is a step in the right direction. However, there are three provisions that I do not agree with
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Health care providers will be able to deny reproductive health services to patients based on their personal or religious beliefs in non-emergency situations.
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As a future nurse, a future healthcare provider, I believe that my personal and religious beliefs should not get in the way of providing quality care to a client. Especially if I believe that the healthcare provider is already against providing healthcare, how would I know is the situation is truly an emergency or not?
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Spousal consent for women in non life-threatening circumstances will be required to access reproductive health care.
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As a woman, I do not take kindly to the thought that I would need to ask for permission to access reproductive health care because women should have the right to decide not to get pregnant. Why should a spouse have a legal right to veto health decisions when they will not be the one putting themselves at risk for 9 months?
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Parental consent will also be required for minors seeking medical attention who have been pregnant or had a miscarriage.
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As a young person, I know how terrifying it is to talk about sex, let alone safe sex, to my parents. Minors need parental consent to go to a health center to get pills and condoms, essentially making them inaccessible. Now as a result of that inaccessibility, if a minor were to get pregnant, they would then need parental consent to get healthcare. Why make an already difficult situation even harder when minors who are old enough to have sex should be old enough to know when to get professional help for the consequences of sex.
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