(10 POINTS)
The City Mayor issues an Executive Order declaring that the city promotes responsible parenthood and upholds natural family planning. He prohibits all hospitals operated by the city from prescribing the use of artificial methods of contraception, including condoms, pills, intrauterine devices and surgical sterilization. As a result, poor women in his city lost their access to affordable family planning programs.
Private clinics, however, continue to render family planning counsel and devices to paying clients.
(a) Is the Executive Order in any way constitutionally infirm? Explain.
(b) Is the Philippines in breach of any obligation under international law? Explain.
(c) May the Commission on Human Rights order the Mayor to stop the implementation of the Executive Order?
Explain.
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