Family Planning and Related Issues to Know

1. Measures for Implementing Family Planning

Pursuant to Article 9 of the Population Ordinance 2003, the measures for implementing family planning include:

- Propaganda, counseling, assistance, and assurance to enable each individual and couple to proactively and voluntarily carry out family planning;- Providing family planning services that ensure quality, convenience, safety, and reach all citizens;- Encouragements through material and spiritual benefits, and implementing insurance policies to create motivation for widespread family planning among the population.

The State supports and facilitates the implementation of family planning programs and projects, giving priority to areas with especially difficult socio-economic conditions, areas with difficult socio-economic conditions, the poor, people with difficult circumstances, and underage individuals.

2. Rights and Obligations of Each Couple and Individual in Implementing Family Planning

Based on the provisions of Article 10 of the Population Ordinance 2003, in implementing family planning, each couple and individual have the following rights and obligations:

- Decide on the timing, number, and spacing of children appropriate to their age, health condition, learning, labor, work, income, and child-rearing conditions on an equal basis;- Choose and use family planning measures;- Use contraceptive methods;- Protect health and implement measures to prevent and avoid reproductive tract infections, sexually transmitted diseases, and HIV/AIDS;- Fulfill other obligations related to reproductive health care and family planning.

3. Propaganda and Counseling on Family Planning

The state management agency on population is responsible for developing programs and content for propaganda and counseling on family planning; cooperating with agencies, organizations, and individuals in organizing and implementing propaganda and counseling on family planning.

Agencies, organizations, and individuals have the right to receive information and participate in propaganda and counseling on the implementation of family planning.

Information and propaganda agencies are responsible for propagating and disseminating the law on population and family planning. The content and form of propaganda must be appropriate and easy to understand for each target group.

This content is regulated in Article 11 of the Population Ordinance 2003 effective May 1, 2003.

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