Ayala Alabang ordinance tackled
March 19, 2011, 9:20pm
MANILA, Philippines — Supporters and opponents of the controversial Ayala Alabang ordinance which prohibits the sale of contraceptives and requires prescription in the sale of condoms met Saturday at the public hearing organized by the barangay council.
It was held at the De La Salle Zobel School inside the posh Ayala Alabang Village in Muntinlupa. (Jonathan Hicap)
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I am all for contraception, but what worries me is the quality of contraceptives the government will give for free. Everybody knows the shoddy quality of roads, bridges, school buildings & all other work given by the govt to the public, especially in the provinces.
Everybody knows the govt only buys the cheapest price not only because of the bidding process but also to maximize commissions. :-((
No matter what "safeguards" the govt promise, we all know the result in the past. I worry that that govt will buy the cheapest therefore lowest-quality condoms that tear easily, and low-dose pills that have no margin for human error when it comes to the schedule in taking them.
We might end up with more unplanned pregnancies & AIDS than we did in the past. And fatter wallets for govt officials.
Filipinos breed like mink. The church continue to instill religious fear in the minds of the common people against the use of contraception yet they (church) and the governemnt fail to provide for the subsistence of uncontrolled births as the result. The rich and the powerful elite don't have to worry about population control because they have easy source for contraceptive devices and with no divorce, pay the church to annul existing marriages. With many earning and average of P42.00 per day, how can the ordinary tao afford to buy any conctraceptive device since they can hardly put food on the table. If the government requires prescription for the use of condoms, only the manufacturers and the doctors will make all the money but ordinary joe blow is stuck with the cost. How readily available are contraceptive devices in the far reaches of barangays when all there is are sari-sari stores. Why don't the government establish a vasectomy program by paying a few thousan pesos to those who no longer want more children yet continue active with their sexual lives.
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