A reproductive health bill sits stalled in the Philippine Congress for more than sixteen years while the country's population nearly doubles around it. This episode of Al Jazeera's 101 East examines the fight over the bill, which would guarantee access to contraception in a nation where roughly two million children are born every year and the UN warns resources will fall short of demand by 2025. The Catholic Church opposes the legislation as a promoter of promiscuity and abortion, and the program sets church officials against lawmakers and health advocates who argue birth control gives women control over family size and health. A national survey cited in the film finds that about one in three Philippine births are unwanted or unplanned. The program also tracks the human cost of the current law, which pushes abortion underground: half a million women a year risk unsafe procedures, more than 80,000 suffer complications, and roughly 1,000 die. The episode asks directly whether the Church's influence is damaging the nation's health.