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'Senate President Vicente Sotto III is guilty of reproductive coercion – a form of abuse where someone interferes with your reproductive health choices and body autonomy.'
One implant lasts 3 years – long enough to prevent pregnancy throughout high school and allowing a girl to graduate. Another dose could help her get through college.
For mothers who want to plan and space pregnancies, Llanto said, “Implants are safe, effective and can be used while breastfeeding. It gives a mother time to take care of her infant, breastfeed and for her body to recover.”According to a legislative source, the P225M budget for implants was removed from the Family Planning budget – the budget line that itemizes funding for implants – but will remain within the DOH purse.
Community women are all too familiar with the painful reality of going to a health center to get an implant or avail of their preferred birth control method only to find that it is out of stock.The near budget fiasco reminded me of one Sunday afternoon I spent with the , most of whom were implant users. We talked about another birth control crisis when we were running out of contraceptives because of a Supreme Court restraining order – an incident that can also be traced back to Sotto’s actions."We're poor, we can't afford many children."I nudged them a bit to go beyond these benefits. I asked them to tell me if birth control had an impact on their feelings when it comes to sex, their husbands, their children and themselves.
We cannot allow legislators like Sotto deprive women of their right to decide over their own body, their right to decide on their own future – and their right to happiness.Ana P. Santos writes about gender and sexuality for Rappler. She is the Pulitzer Center’s 2014 Miel Fellow and a 2018 Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity in Southeast Asia.
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