convenient and affordable public transport 16.” It strongly recommended that the State ensure the removal of all barriers to women’s access to health services, including RH services. Failure to do so could constitute a breach of the State’s obligation under CEDAW. 4. LACK OR INADEQUATE RESPONSE TO THE INTERSECTIONAL VULNERABILITEIS OF WOMEN FROM THE MARGINALIZED SECTORS AND IN SPECIFIC VULNERABLE SITUATIONS The National Inquiry purposively conducted targeted data gathering on the availability, accessibility, adequacy and affordability of RH services and information for vulnerable and marginalized women. The barriers and denial of RH services and information provided above were likewise experienced by women in the vulnerable and marginalized sector, but these were further exacerbated by their different vulnerabilities and different experiences of discrimination brought about by situations which render them vulnerable. Discriminatory Policies render marginalized women more vulnerable In the five cluster areas, the Commission found that women from the marginalized sector are most vulnerable to the effects of discriminatory policies that hinder full access to RH Services. In Sorsogon City, the Mayor’s “Pro-Life” EO and the resulting pull out of artificial contraceptives affected women living in geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas, those who are in the informal sector, and those who are dependent on their husbands and without means to purchase their own contraceptives. EO 003 further discriminates against these vulnerable/marginalized women as it requires them to pay for contraceptives they could have received for free were it not for the adoption of the EO and the pull out of contraceptives. The stop gap measures implemented by the DOH through the Nurse Deployment Program helped in providing unmet needs of women in Sorsogon City, but as a stop gap measure, it is not sustainable. With the EO in place, women in Sorsogon specially the most marginalized and in GIDA continue to face barriers in accessing RH services and information. 16 Id 25