THE Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Law of 2012 (RPRH Law) gave the Philippines a comprehensive framework for programs and services pertaining to family planning and reproductive health. While national and local government agencies could always provide such services even without a law, it never seemed to be a priority. In fact, due to opposition from the Roman Catholic Church to any form of artificial family planning methods, and because many of us who favor family planning never were half as aggressive as the so-called pro-life groups, reproductive health has been in the backburner for a long time. We have to go back 20 years to the days of the late senator and health secretary Juan Flavier to find a government promoting family planning in earnest.