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Quote Originally Posted by Arthur Little View Post
... correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Family Planning first practised in the Phils as part of the Marcos Programme of Martial Law? Moreover, it's my understanding it was even taught in State Secondary Schools back then - by being integrated into the Physical Education curriculum - much to the and vociferous opposition of the powerful Cardinal Sin, Head of the nation's Head of the Catholic Church at that time?
Bear in mind, too ... ... that a sizeable majority of the population
- especially those living in the provinces - were correspondingly being denied the opportunity of an education beyond a basic Elementary (Primary) level, due to impoverished familial circumstances.

... conditions which, ashamedly (due to widespread governmental corruption ) remain significantly unchanged and - to an unacceptably LARGE extent - unchallenged, to the present day.