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Philippine High Court OK’s Historic Birth Control Law

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Apr 10, 2014
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The Philippine Supreme Court has finally ruled that the landmark Reproductive Health Law passed in 2012 but suspended awaiting Tuesday’s verdict is constitutional, but offered a compromise on an edict that has polarized the only predominantly Roman Catholic country in Asia.

Both supporters and opponents of the sharply debated measure claimed partial vict…

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