Pros And Cons Of Family Planning In The Philippines

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Ralph Andre G. Tenorio P1B Family Planning: A must Many of us confused about what is family planning, for me family planning is just planning for how many children they desire, but considering if they can support its needs, some say it is unlawful activity that committing murder because it kill the baby inside the womb, I think it is not family planning how come it is a planning if they don’t want the result of their action. But let us see what does in the http://dictionary.reference.com/ says about family planning – family planning is a concept or a program of limiting the size of families through the spacing or prevention of pregnancies, especially for economic reasons. The Catholic Church is against this kind of method because they say that …show more content…

Perry Ong, a professor of Biology at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City, places the Philippines’ original forest cover at27 million has. or 270,000 sq. kms. or 90 percent of the country’s total land area (30 million has. or 300,000 sq. kms.), at the beginning of the Spanish colonial period (1565-1898). Now we are experiencing climate change and one of the many reasons is cutting down trees because of a large population of the world, converting many forests into residential areas. It is contributing to greenhouse gases, the abnormal raising of temperature that causes harmful effect to all living organisms here on earth. There are many effects of deforestation, some that are very clear and obvious, while others are not. They include loss of biodiversity (loss of species and habitat); soil erosion and degradation; flooding or droughts; and more carbon dioxide and less oxygen in the air. The obvious ones are the loss of trees, habitats, animal life, and destruction of natural processes that occur in the affected regions. As many as 50,000 species are being destroyed each year because of deforestation. Half of those species are unknown and will never be discovered.

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