{"id":2483,"date":"2013-03-07T16:12:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T16:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=2483"},"modified":"2013-03-07T16:12:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T16:12:23","slug":"the-reproductive-health-law-in-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=2483","title":{"rendered":"The Reproductive Health Law in the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The law requires government health centres to hand out free condoms and birth control pills, benefiting tens of millions of the country&#8217;s poor who would not otherwise be able to afford or have access to them.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It also mandates that sex education be taught in schools and public health workers receive family planning training, while post-abortion medical care has been made legal for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Proponents say the law will slow the country&#8217;s rapid population growth, cut widespread poverty and reduce the number of mothers dying at child birth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a triumph for poor women and girls who would otherwise have no access to these things,&#8221; the United Nations Population Fund&#8217;s country representative, Ugochi Daniels, told AFP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The law requires government health centres to hand out free condoms and birth control pills, benefiting tens of millions of the country&#8217;s poor who would not otherwise be able to afford or have access to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}