Birth Control Bill Has Enemies in Philippines

A new public health and service bill is being examined through the Filipino Congress, urging them to make means of birth control affordable and access easier .According to the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit organization in the U.S., 54 percent of the 3.4 million pregnancies in the Philippines in 2008 were unintended with 92 percent resulting from not using birth control. The issue is reliant on the fact that 70 percent of the population is too poor to afford it, and when distribution shifted from central government to local authorities, many communities stopped carrying it. This bill was brought to light in the interest of national welfare on the basis of the growing population rate, which is growing more than 2 percent annually of the 92 million. But, due to the influencial Roman Catholic beliefs, this bill would support abortion by providing abortion-inducing drugs. Many churches and religious organizations are boycotting the bill and making it difficult to pass.

By: Paul Yuccas