Biana Hazel T
Southeast Asia Research Center and Hub, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines.
Front Sociol. 2025 Mar 19;10:1429980. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2025.1429980. eCollection 2025.
No laws regulate Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) in the Philippines. Because of this, women who suffer from infertility must settle with specific guidelines crafted by medical and fertility specialists and professional organizations. As a result, women have limited access to ART and rely on scarce healthcare services and facilities, which may be at the mercy of several guidelines influenced by personal and religious beliefs. In this essay, I examine these regulations (or lack thereof), their socio-cultural motivations, and their dire implications on women and their reproductive rights. I show that Philippine ART regulations lag compared to some developing countries; women have limited choices to address their fertility and reproductive health issues, and they lack the support that they need in dealing with infertility. Thus, regulations need to be crafted to make ART practices more inclusive and less inhibiting for women in the Philippines.
菲律宾没有规范辅助生殖技术（ART）的法律。因此，患有不孕症的女性必须遵循医学和生育专家以及专业组织制定的特定指导方针。结果，女性获得辅助生殖技术的机会有限，只能依赖稀缺的医疗服务和设施，而这些服务和设施可能受个人和宗教信仰影响的多种指导方针左右。在本文中，我将审视这些规范（或缺乏规范的情况）、其社会文化动机以及它们对女性及其生殖权利的严重影响。我指出，与一些发展中国家相比，菲律宾的辅助生殖技术规范滞后；女性解决生育和生殖健康问题的选择有限，且在应对不孕症方面缺乏所需的支持。因此，需要制定规范，以使辅助生殖技术在菲律宾的实施对女性更具包容性，限制更少。
