Tag: family planning

Trump rolls back Obamacare provision for free birth control

  WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump’s administration annulled on Friday an Obamacare provision that obliged employer health plans to pay for contraception, potentially stripping free birth control from millions of women. The move extends to all commercial enterprises an exemption already given to religious institutions. Rights groups erupted in anger and the American Civil Liberties Union threatened a lawsuit, but the White House called it a matter of religious freedom. The […]

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Women empowerment: Family planning seminar isinagawa sa Lipa City

Nagsagawa ng libreng seminar para sa mga buntis at bagong nanganak pa lamang ang Philippine Business for Social Progress sa Lipa City. Ang seminar–na isinagawa sa pakikipagtulungan ng City Health Office at inisponsoran ng Lima Organization of Pollution Control Officers, Inc. (LOPCO Inc.)—ay naglalayong mabigyan ng kaalaman ang mga kababaihan ukol sa tamang pagpaplano ng pamilya, kabilang na ang wastong paggamit ng mga contraceptives. Humigit-kumulang 200 kababaihan mula sa iba’t-ibang barangay sa Lipa ang dumalo sa nasabing seminar. Kabilang na dito […]

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President Duterte reiterates pitch for family planning, mandatory ROTC

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday reiterated his call for family planning and a mandatory Reserved Officers Training Corps program. For the first, Duterte said there was a need for this as the country’s resources were “not in parity” with its population. “Di mag-abot. Even tabla (hindi),” he said during the opening of the Palarong Pambansa in Antique on Sunday. But the President reserved the specifics at another time, saying that he would discuss […]

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