The poor are always at a disadvantage all the time, even in matters of planning their own families! Middle-class families and the rich can easily access family planning methods, but the poor can't. They just don't have the money to pay to their doctors or to buy those contraceptives. And they should be the people our health workers should reach - the ones who have the most at stake on this. I know the government should not legislate our sex lives, but the sight of so much poor struggling, just because they have 5, 6 7, or more children, should be enough for the government to step in and educate them in family planning methods - whether those are sanctioned by the Church or not. The Church can do their own sex education and the state can do its share - and the couple should be left alone to decide for themselves. We are a democratic country after all!
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