MANILA: At age 33 and raising six children in a slum named "Paradise Village," Myrna Albos is Exhibit A for the Philippines' serial family planning failures.

The plumber's wife already had four children by the time a family planning law was passed in December 2012, but she had two more after opponents blocked it and the government health center near her shanty ran out of birth control pills.

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