Laws about Family Planning: Philippines
KFF, a website that provides health analysis and news about health care, stated the Philippine Laws on Family Planning not only provides services, because it will help the country to achieve universal access to proper reproductive health.
Republic Act 10354:
The Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012
This law stated that, “No person shall be denied information and access to family planning services, whether natural or artificial: Provided, That minors will not be allowed access to modern methods of family planning without written consent from their parents or guardian/s except when the minor is already a parent or has had a miscarriage.”
Republic Act 11223:
Universal Health Care Law (2019)
In 2019, President Rodrigo Duterte signed the Universal Health Care bill which reforms the healthcare system and aims to provide more accessible health care services with low financial risk to the Filipino community.
Department Memorandum no. 2022-0222:
Guidelines on the Continuous Provision of Family Planning Services during Enhanced Community Quarantine following the COVID-19 Pandemic
In 2019, President Rodrigo Duterte signed the Universal Health Care bill which reforms the healthcare system and aims to provide more accessible health care services with low financial risk to the Filipino community.
DID YOU KNOW?
The Arroyo government uses the national budget to support only modern natural family planning, which is approved by the Catholic Church—not to support modern “artificial” contraceptives, such as pills, injectables, IUDs and condoms.
The National Family Planning Program
The National Family Planning Program seeks to provide correct knowledge, medically safe, legal, non-abortifacient, effective, and culturally acceptable modern family planning (FP) methods to every Filipino.
MISSION
For Filipino women and men achieve their desired family size and fulfill the reproductive health and rights for all through universal access to quality family planning information and services.
VISION
In line with the Department of Health FOURmula One Plus strategy and Universal Health Care framework, the National Family Planning Program is committed to provide responsive policy direction and ensure access of Filipinos to medically safe, legal, non-abortifacient, effective, and culturally acceptable modern family planning (FP) methods.
The National Safe Motherhood
Is primarily concerned with and strives to improve the health, and well-being of Filipino pregnant women and provide quality healthcare to Filipino women in order to ensure safer pregnancy and delivery. It prioritizes preventing adolescent pregnancy and satisfying women's unmet needs for family planning contraceptives until 2030.
MISSION
Our Mission is for Filipino women to have full access to health services towards making their pregnancy and childbirth safer.
VISSION
In support of the Ambisyon Natin 2040, the National Safe Motherhood Program envisions a healthy Filipino family where the mother is healthy as the other members of her family.
Family Planning Organizations
The Philippine Family Planning Organization is a non-profit, service-oriented organization that provides quality sexual and reproductive health services to all Filipinos, particularly the poor and underprivileged.
It aims to ensure that everyone has access to high-quality family planning information, education, and services, so that they may make informed choices about their sexual and reproductive health (SRH)
Young people are a primary target of FPOP, which tries to organize public support for the individual's right to practice family planning. It has a network of over 1,000 community-based distributors/community-based services (CBDs/CBSs) and operates over 1,100 service sites, including 29 permanent and 27 mobile clinics.