If birth control is a "health program" then the single most serious disease in the Philippines today is pregnancy.

If birth control is a "health program" then the single most serious disease in the Philippines today is pregnancy.

People think that the RH BILL says that being pregnant is a sickness. But it doesn’t go that way, from what I believe the RH Bill is saying that being pregnant may also have negative effects that can be prevented if the couple knows how to control and plan what might happen in the long run. The reproductive health bill doesn’t say that pregnant women will be treated in a way that they are sick, the bill says that they will protect women through the programs that will be done if the reproductive health bill is passed.

One of the programs will be an education to families, these are the modern and the natural ways of preventing pregnancy. It teaches the couple when the female is fertile and if ever they want to use contraceptives, they will be allowed to do so, the education given to them will include the positive effects of using contraceptives and also the negative effects. The bill will not promote abortion, it will prevent it. The couple will have the freedom to choose if they want to do such or not, the couple will not be coerced to follow what the educator is saying.

Coverage of RH. (1) Information and access to natural and modern family planning (2) Maternal, infant and child health and nutrition (3) Promotion of breast feeding (4) Prevention of abortion and management of post-abortion complications (5) Adolescent and youth health (6) Prevention and management of reproductive tract infections, HIV/AIDS and STDs (7) Elimination of violence against women (8) Counseling on sexuality and sexual and reproductive health (9) Treatment of breast and reproductive tract cancers (10) Male involvement and participation in RH; (11) Prevention and treatment of infertility and (12) RH education for the youth.

From the philippine Inquirer.

1. Educates the couple to prevent unwanted pregnancies.
2. It teaches the couple how to provide for their children
3. Breast feeding makes the baby healthy and the mother of the child needs to have a clean and healthy lifestyle to do so. There are many things to be considered during pregnancy and the RH bill will teach women on how to do so.
4. THE RH BILL PREVENTS ABORTION. And if a couple decides to abort a child, the bill provides health center in which these people will be allowed to cope up and be taken care of because of the bad effects that may happen.
5. The children will be taught about the hazards and possibilities if they engage in these actions, we cannot escape the fact that there are many young women or teenagers giving birth in the Philippines and they are not prepared to handle such things.
6. Teaches people on how to prevent sexually transmitted diseases
7. Women will be taken care of that they will be given a choice to decide what they want in life if they were abused or raped.
8. Counseling to inform couples about sexuality and how they can take care of themselves
9. The rh bill also provide help in the treatment of breast cancer
10. The bill teaches men on how they should be involved in the situation.
11. Prevents couples to take actions that may be the source of infertility and such
12. Teaches the youth about the effects of doing such actions.