Filipina girls tubes too young

Before the reproductive health law, there was no formal sex education in the Philippines, and to this day, the rollout remains patchy, fraught and very limited.

Sitting at small sundries shop in Manila North Cemetery, where she lives as thousands of people do in one of the mausoleums, Ralyn chats with Margie, a year-old who is seven months pregnant. He approached first and subsequent sex as a transaction.

She asked that her name not be used for fear of arrest or reprisal. Children work in unstable meter-deep pits that could collapse at any moment.

The "Third Chinese" are the second largest group of Chinese, the recent immigrants from Mainland China, after the Chinese economic reform of the s. In the past, the Catholic Bishops Council of the Philippines preached — in public statements, on the pulpit and through allied lawmakers — against a bill to widen access to birth control on moral grounds, calling it "anti-life" and "a major attack on authentic human values and on Filipino cultural values.