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REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH BILL / RH BILL (PRO) Reproductive Health Bill or also known as “RH Bill”, aims to control the population in the Philippines. It promotes family planning methods which are safe and legally permissible. It allows the people to use contraceptives to prevent unwanted pregnancies and abortion. Moreover, it assures an enabling environment where women and couples have the freedom of informed choice on the mode of family planning they want to adopt based on their needs, personal convictions and religious beliefs. This bill also promotes human development. This is made to address the overpopulation of our country.

The main purpose of Reproductive Health Bill or RH Bill is to provide family planning especially to the poor families and safe contraceptives to the people. It also helps prevent overpopulation which causes famine and poverty in our country Philippines. Furthermore, it helps prevent the abortion in the society. The government is in favor of the bill while the Roman Catholic Church is not, because they said that the bill is a hindrance to the life given by the Almighty God and they are against this bill, because it prevents the production of life which is against the law of God and according to them, they only prevent life which God has given us.

For me I’m pro in this RH BILL, because it can control the population and it is one of the most important benefits of RH Bill, and the advantages of this bill is it allows the economy to control its growing population and favors the rights of women. It also provides family planning to all families in a society and contraceptives to prevent unwanted pregnancies and abortion. Furthermore it also promotes information on and access to both natural and modern family planning methods. Now the government can control it, because our President Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III or also known as Noynoy Aquino or Pnoy has signed into law Republic Act No. 10354 or the “Responsible Parenthood and

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