Accalia

In the Philippines, it’s very hard for people to afford vitamins, food, shelter and most importantly birth control. Abortion is illegal in the Philippines due to strong religious beliefs, so if you can’t afford birth control, your life sucks. Gina Judilla had three children that she couldn’t take care of already. She admitted to trying to kill her newest baby while it was still a fetus, and she knew she couldn’t afford to have it. She didn’t succeed and now has another little boy. 70 percent of the Philippines population is too poor to afford birth control, or other medicines. Little by little Philippine congress is trying to help with this issue. The reproductive health and population development act is attempting to provide the Philippines with low cost health services, which would include condoms, birth control pills, and vasectomies. It would also teach sex education in private and public schools. A survey showed that only half of the female population in the Philippines have used birth control. 92 percent of pregnancies there are unintended. Churches have caused condoms and other things to protect yourself to be TAKEN AWAY from hospitals or clinics. Patients who would ask for them would be turned down.

  This article relates to health, because of how dangerous it is for people to be uneducated about health. Women in the Philippines cannot afford birth control, causing a rapid population increase and a lot of suffering. Most of these women have several children that they can’t afford as it is, so if abortion is not available they must have a child. Children are suffering and not eating because they cannot be aborted. Clinics need to be available to these woman to recieve condoms, birth control and an education of safe sex. I bet a lot of these women have sexually transmitted diseases that they are completely unaware of, and un educated about. If people are trying to kill their babies by themselves, there’s clearly a problem here. Clinics should provide abortions as well. If they cannot afford to have the child they should be able to abort it. Hopefully laws are passed, and the Philippines must provide women with low cost health services to help them protect themselves from the dangerous and risks of having sex.