(c) The right of the family to a family living wage and income; and
(d) The right of families or family associations to participate in the planning and
implementation of policies and programs
The State likewise guarantees universal access to medically-safe, non-abortifacient, effective, legal,
affordable, and quality reproductive health care services, methods, devices, supplies which do not
prevent the implantation of a fertilized ovum as determined by the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) and relevant information and education thereon according to the priority needs of women,
children and other underprivileged sectors, giving preferential access to those identified through the
National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) and other government
measures of identifying marginalization, who shall be voluntary beneficiaries of reproductive health
care, services and supplies for free. ■ •
The State shall eradicate discriminatory practices, laws and policies that infringe on a person’s
exercise of reproductive health rights.
The State shall also promote openness to life; Provided, That parents bring forth to the world only
those children whom they can raise in a truly humane way.
Section 3. Guiding Principles for Implementation. – This Act declares the following as guiding
principles:
(a) The right to make free and informed decisions, which is central to the exercise of any
right, shall not be subjected to any form of coercion and must be fully guaranteed by the
State, like the right itself;
(b) Respect for protection and fulfillment of reproductive health and rights which seek to
promote the rights and welfare of every person particularly couples, adult individuals, women
and adolescents;
(c) Since human resource is among the principal assets of the country, effective and quality
reproductive health care services must be given primacy to ensure maternal and child health,
the health of the unborn, safe delivery and birth of healthy children, and sound replacement
rate, in line with the State’s duty to promote the right to health, responsible parenthood,
social justice and full human development;
(d) The provision of ethical and medically safe, legal, accessible, affordable, nonabortifacient, effective and quality reproductive health care services and supplies is essential
in the promotion of people’s right to health, especially those of women, the poor, and the
marginalized, and shall be incorporated as a component of basic health care;
(e) The State shall promote and provide information and access, without bias, to all methods
of family planning, including effective natural and modern methods which have been proven
medically safe, legal, non-abortifacient, and effective in accordance with scientific and
evidence-based medical research standards such as those registered and approved by the
FDA for the poor and marginalized as identified through the NHTS-PR and other government
measures of identifying marginalization: Provided, That the State shall also provide funding
support to promote modern natural methods of family planning, especially the Billings
Ovulation Method, consistent with the needs of acceptors and their religious convictions;