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Members of the NIT are DOH, POPCOM, FDA, DSWD, NEDA, DepEd, DILG,
PhilHealth, NAPC, PCW, NCDA, ULAP and CSOs.- member agencies of National
Implementation Team
The law aims to empower the Filipino people, especially women and youth,
through informed choice and age- and development- appropriate education.
Further, the law guarantees access to information, facilities and services most
especially for the poor by ensuring stable and sustainable reproductive health
programs are in place through partnerships between national and local
governments in collaboration with CSOs, basic sectors, academe and private
sector.
5. What are the guiding principles that govern the RP-RH Law?
The right to make free and informed decisions of every person
particularly couples, adult individuals, women and adolescents including
preference and choice for FP methods, determination of ideal family size;
The provision of effective and quality RH care services by the state that
will lead to universal access to affordable and quality RH care and
services;
The provision of truthful information and education on RH; and
The preferential access to the poor and the marginalized.
topics:
Rights of the Child;
Child Health and Nutrition;
Child and Adolescent Development;
Gender and Development;
Life skills;
Age-appropriate Sexuality Education;
Population and development;
Marriage and family;
Prevention of STIs, including HIV, and
Recognition and elimination of gender-based violence.
13. How would the bill contribute to the reduction of maternal deaths?
The RH bill provides emergency obstetric and new born care, the hiring of
skilled personnel, and the inclusion of family planning programs. It also
provides access to family planning supports, including essential medicines
which are provided in Section 9. The measure included the provision on
essential medicines to ensure that they are made available especially to
women whose dilemma is how to support a family without compromising a
baby.
The core of the RH bill is freedom of informed choice. To this end, the bill
guarantees information and education on and access to ALLl forms of
family planning methods from the natural to the modern, all of which should
be medically safe, effective, legal, and affordable. As repeatedly stated
throughout the provisions of this bill, the government will be mandated to
provide information, education on and access, without bias to all methods of
family planning.
18. Does this bill not violate the right to free exercise of religion of the
Catholics? What is the prevailing doctrine on Church-State
relationship?
The State has the power to legislate particularly in the exercise of police
power for the welfare of the public, and in that process of legislation, the
State is definitely ascendant. If there is any conflict between religious
dogma and the State policy, the State policy must prevail.