The Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive

Health Act of 2012 (Republic Act No. 10354),

informally known as the Reproductive Health
Law or RH Law, is a law in the Philippines, which
guarantees universal access to methods on
contraception, fertility control, sexual education,
and maternal care.
Parents, who were able to space their children and achieve
their desired number, were also more likely to bear the full cost
of raising, educating and keeping them healthy. In contrast,
poor families that had more children than they desired were
constrained to rely on public education and health services and
other publicly provided goods and services. Moreover, women
who had children sooner than planned were rarely in the best
of health during pregnancy and were more likely to seek
medical treatment. And poor women typically utilized public
health care facilities. In a situation where government was
already hard-pressed to finance even the most basic items of
public spending, having no national population policy was an
unnecessary encumbrance. Providing services for planning and
spacing pregnancies was, thus, one way of alleviating the tax
burden.
 A state of complete physical, mental
and social well-being and not merely
the absence of disease/ infirmity in all
matters relating to the reproductive
system and to its functions and
processes.
• Right to RH information and health care services
for safe pregnancy and childbirth.
• Right to know different means of regulating
fertility to preserve health and where to obtain
them.
• Freedom to decide the number and timing of
birth of children.
• Right to exercise satisfying sex life.
• Socioeconomic conditions – education,
employment, poverty, nutrition, living condition/
environment, family environment
• Status of women – equal right in education and in
making decisions about her own RH; right to be
free from torture and ill treatment and to
participate in politics
• Social and Gender Issues
• Biological (individual knowledge of reproductive
organs and their functions), cultural(country’s
norms, RH practices) and psychosocial factors
• Maternal and Child Health Nutrition
• Family Planning
• Prevention and Management of Abortion Complications
• Prevention and Treatment of Reproductive Tract Infections,
including STDs, HIV and AIDS
• Education and Counseling on Sexuality and Sexual Health
• Breast and Reproductive Tract Cancers and other
Gynecological Conditions
• Men’s Reproductive Health
• Adolescent Reproductive Health
• Violence Against Women
• Prevention and Treatment of Infertility and Sexual Disorders
• RH is the exercise of reproductive right with responsibility.
• It means safe pregnancy and delivery, the right of access to
appropriate health information and services.
• It includes protection from unwanted pregnancy by having
access to safe and acceptable methods of family planning
of their choice.
• It includes protection from harmful reproductive practices
and violence.
• It ensures sexual health for the purpose of enhancement of
life and personal relations and assures access to
information on sexuality to achieve sexual enjoyment.
• To achieve healthy sexual development and
maturation.
• To achieve their reproductive intention.
• To avoid diseases, injuries and disabilities
related to sexuality and reproduction.
• To receive appropriate counseling and care of
RH problems.
• Increase and improve the use of more effective or
modern contraceptive methods
• Provision of care, treatment and rehabilitation for RH
• RH care provision should be focused on adolescents,
men and unmarried and other displaced people with
RH problems
• Strengthen outreach activities and referral system
• Prevent specific RH problems through information
dissemination and counseling of clients