Family Planning Deserves More Space in the Filipino Government

The health of a nation starts before conception.

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A twenty-year-old giving birth to her third child. A baby born without a single thing prepared for him. A forty-year-old giving birth to her eighth child. These are just some of what I’ve witnessed while supervised my midwifery students at a government hospital. The birth of a child should be a celebrated…