Philippine bar exam questions 2007 ( POLI Q2)

II. (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.

Philippine bar exam questions 2007 ( POLI Q1)

I. (10 POINTS)

True or False. Briefly explain your answer.

(a) For purposes of communication and instruction, the official languages of the Philippines, until otherwise provided by law, are Filipino and English.

(b) The 1987 Constitution has increased the scope of academic freedom recognized under the previous Constitution.