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The maternity ward at the Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital in Manila is dubbed the "baby factory" for a reason. It is considered the busiest maternity ward in the world, with more than one hundred deliveries every day. As many as four or five exhausted mothers and their newborn babies often share double beds in an open space that oddly does resemble more a factory plant than a maternity.
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The Philippines, with a population of almost one hundred million, has one of the highest birth rates in Asia and could double its population in three decades.
The Philippines Supreme Court recently declared constitutional the Reproductive Health (RH) bill approved last year. Thus, it ended a long tug of war between the government and the very influential Catholic Church which in the past went as far as threatening President Aquino with excommunication if such a law was ever passed. This law aims to provide family planning education and access to birth control to those Filipinos who didn't have it in the past for cultural, religious or economic reasons.
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