MANILA, Philippines – Barangay Ayala AAyala Alabang requires prescription for condoms

[itzurisen]

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MANILA, Philippines – Barangay Ayala Alabang in Muntinlupa City is now requiring people who buy condoms to present a doctor’s prescription.
In a barangay ordinance last January 3, village officials said condoms and other contraceptives cause abortions.
The ordinance also bars teachers, reproductive health advocates, and social workers from holding *** education activities in the barangay without prior consultation with parents of students.
Local officials also banned advertisement of all forms of contraceptives in the village.
Those who approved the ordinance were barangay chairman Alfred Xerez-Burgos, Jr.; kagawads Joanna Caluglug, Alice Bacani, Maria Carmen Reyes, Ma. Soledad Tugade, Mariano Manas Jr., Apolinario delos Santos III, Giancarlo Nazario; and Sangguniang Kabataan chairman Juan Enrico Parfan.
They said “contraceptive pills, hormonal contraceptives, and the IUD may kill children and injure the health of women who use them.”
Village officials also believe that contraceptives “undermine the solidarity of families by promoting premarital ***, giving rise to more fatherless children, more single mothers, more poverty, and more abortions.”
The resolution also claims that condoms are “unconstitutional” because “they promote and sanction immoral sexual congresses among the unmarried and especially among the young, thereby contradicting the Constitutional injunction that the State ‘shall promote and protect … the physical, moral, spiritual, intellectual and social well-being of the youth.”
Aside from asking people to present a prescription before they are allowed to buy condoms in Ayala Alabang, pharmacists are required by the ordinance to record the following data in a book for “abortives and anti-conceptionals":
- Number and date of the prescription;
- Name and address of the physician;
- Name, quantity and manufacturer of the drug;
- Name and address of the purchaser;
- Date of filling the prescription; and
- Signature of the pharmacist filling the prescription.
Those who will violate the ordinance can be fined up to P500 or jailed for up to 4 months.
Village officials said foreigners who will violate the measure should also be deported.
Muntinlupa City officials have yet to comment on the ordinance.


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[reptoid]

OMG... backwards people. How embarrassing to have such folks in positions of responsibility. Somebody please send them an urgent package of common-sense.

[itzurisen]

there could be a lot of better ordinance than this nonsense! well you can always have condoms outside Ayala Alabang...U

[endlessknight]

Hysterical. Looks like the Spanish Inquisition is at it again.

[Hammer_and_Sickle]

grabeha, prescription jud?

[jhay86]

mga bogok wala sila ga huna2x nga ang hiv nag kalat na sa manila....

[peewee_toot]

only in the pilipins!

[burn777]

LOL!

this is dumb!

mao man gani naa accidental pregnancy kay mauwaw mopalit ug condom,

how much more karon nga mangayo na prescription.

expect our population to rise from 90M - 1B in the next 10 years.

i never thought common sense is uncommon nowadays

[cute_6423]

what?they make their constituents ignorant about s3x which is more dangerous. pagmahay nlng jud sa mga tao na nibotar ana nila...

[john_yo]

waaaa grabe.... og naka hibalo ba kaha sila og unsay ka padulngan sa ilang gipang buhat? saonz... og walay ma gamit kay mag withdrawal nalang, ig ka sipyat nah.... tomas...... ang ilang gipang litok na abortion single mom etc... ma hitabo jud noon tinood.

ngano man intawon na naka pwesto man na sila sa baranggay oi... dapat nila sa ilang balay nalang mag puyo. nya nag hisgot pa og deportation, bwahahaha na yabag na.