Rh Bill Chapter 1

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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Background of the study Poverty and overpopulation are two of the biggest national concern the Philippines have right now. Many solutions have been made to alleviate these problems but none of them seem to work. One of which is The Reproductive Health Bill of the Philippines, or RH Bill. The Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012 (Republic Act No. 10354), informally known as the Reproductive Health Law or RH Bill, it is a law in the Philippines, which guarantees universal access to methods of contraception, fertility control, sexual education, and maternal care. If there is a strong argument on the passage of the Reproductive Health (RH) Bill, it is the ever-growing population of the Philippines. According to the latest statistics on the country’s demographical data, there are now 96 million Filipinos, a considerable increase in the last 10 years or so, or a growth rate of at least four to six percent every year. Translated to more significant data, five to six babies are born in the country every minute, a staggering information considering that the Philippines is, until today, still referred to by its neighboring countries as a developing economy. (http://su.edu.ph/article/267-The-RH-Bill, By Dr. Maria Cecilia M. Genove, retrieve 2013) The Reproductive Health Bill was first introduced in our country in 1998 as the Population and Development Bill, but somewhat died in the years after. Not until the year 2011 that the Congress decided to once again open its door for discussion on the RH bill. The Bill was first introduced in the House of Representatives of the Philippines by Edcel Lagman in 2011, as an act of providing for a Comprehensive Policy on Responsible Parenthood, Reproductive Health, and Population and Development, and for Other Purposes, then later the Bill was introduced in the

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