Family planning is underfunded (?)
By hushi22
@hushi22 (4927)
September 27, 2010 10:39am CST
Would you believe that family planning is globally underfunded and that it is time to take it seriously? In the Philippines traditional family planning is the only thing that the catholic church strongly supports. it's always been an argument between the politicians and the people in the church how to adjunct and improve family planning and what are ideal to endorse. What are your thoughts regarding this matter?
1 response
@maximax8 (31042)
• United Kingdom
20 Jul 11
The Philippines is a Catholic country and so they like people to not use any birth control. That is at odds to the government wanting to lower population growth to slow down. I don't think that the birth control is funded in a widespread way in the Philippines.
I live in England and here we have the National Health Scheme here. This gives free birth control and family planning services to the people that ask for it. Many people choose to buy birth control themselves because they can afford to.
The situation in many other countries is birth control and family planning are unfunded. Birth control is cheap for the health service compared to pregnancy and birth. The religious leaders should let people use birth control I believe. The world is over populated in many places and birth control lowers population growth.
