More Filipinos question birth-control taboo

Jonathan Adams, writing in the Christian Science Monitor:

The battle over a ground-breaking reproductive health bill is heating up in the Philippines, a country where the influential Roman Catholic Church’s opposition to artificial birth control has long held sway.

A measure to provide government-funded family planning, contraceptives, and sex education has made its way onto the House floor for debate – the furthest any such draft legislation has ever reached.

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