Following the withdrawal of support of some senators on the controversial anti-teenage pregnancy bill, Senate deputy minority leader Sen. Risa Hontiveros said she will submit a substitute bill to Senate Bill No. 1979 or the proposed Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Act of 2023 to address concerns...
Senator Pia Cayetano stressed the importance of teaching "age-appropriate" sex education amid the backlash on Senate Bill (SB) No. 1979, otherwise known as the Prevention of Adolescent Pregnancy Act of 2023. In an interview over DWIZ on Saturday, Jan. 18, Cayetano said that she had nothing against...
Teaching sex education in schools is "very important" as it is meant to address issues that come with early pregnancy such as the mother and child's health and welfare, President Marcos said. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (MANILA BULLETIN | Betheena Unite) In an ambush interview, Marcos...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Sunday, June 30 urged the government to strengthen the implementation of the comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) and the social protection program for adolescent mothers. Gatchalian made the call following the Commission on Population and Development’s...
The Commission on Population and Development (CPD) is calling for a concrete government intervention and heightened national vigilance against teenage pregnancies involving young girls under 15 years old following an alarming increase of live births which the agency monitored between 2021 and 2022....
The Child Rights Network (CRN) and the Philippine Legislators’ Committee on Population and Development Foundation, Inc. (PLCPD) have lauded the passage on second reading of House Bill No. 79 on Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention which would empower tools to address the increasing cases of adolescent...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian has renewed his call for the government to ensure a sustained drop in teenage pregnancies in the country. Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian (Senate PRIB Photo) Gatchalian said keeping girls in school...
Teenage pregnancy in the Philippines has gone down in 2022 and the Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM) is ecstatic of the downtrend as it would mean that the young generation of women would be able to fulfill its dream that would eventually result in the gradual addressing of the...
