Advocates of the Reproductive Health Law waited for more than a day for the Supreme Court to rule on the constitutionality of the RH law, and as the court sat en banc at its summer courthouse in Baguio on Tuesday (April 8), actress Giselle Toengi found time to shoot a selfie with the crowd. This was moments before the court decided that the law was constitutional, and the purple crowd went wild. Some broke into tears. PHOTO BY EV ESPIRITU/ INQUIRER NORTHERN LUZON
MANILA, Philippines—Now that the Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of the much-debated Republic Act No. 10354 or the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012 (RH law), the government is gearing to implement the measure sans any legal impediment.
In a media briefing Tuesday afternoon, Deputy Spokesperson Abigail Valte said that the government, through the Department of Health, has been ready to implement the polarizing law since President Benigno Aquino III signed it on Dec. 28, 2012.
“We have been ready from the day it was signed by the President,” Valte said.
She said that the temporary restraining order that the high court first issued to debate the law’s constitutionality was their only road block.
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