refuses to use contraceptive methods other than the withdrawal method but justifies his violence towards her with suspicions of infidelity when she gets pregnant. Such is the story of Ms. Michelle Balce, who married at age 16 and after giving birth to her fourth child, decided to undergo ligation – but her husband did not agree. She started using pills but because she failed to take them regularly she again got pregnant with her fifth child. She then tried injectables but her husband does not want her to take those things. He physically abused her; her husband thinks she is having an affair since they are using withdrawal method but still she gets pregnant. She shifts from one method to another because she has no money to afford it. From the health center, pills cost 20 PHP, injectibles cost 200 PHP, and check-ups cost 100 PHP. The Philippine Deaf Resource Center (PDRC) and Deaf Resources Philippines, from 400 cases 68% of which involved female deaf parties in 15 regions from 2006-2012, forwards the following issues:    Insufficient number of court interpreters Rape the most common charge both among cases with deaf respondents and deaf complainants Females the majority among complainants for rape, including among minors In GBV cases, majority of perpetrators are hearing and include neighbors, brothers in law, acquaintances and teachers, frequent site of violence is home of the deaf complainant The problems are summed up in the following: 1) how the legal mandate for RH and anti-VAW render women & girls with disabilities as “completely invisible,” 2) how data generation is not appropriately disaggregated to reflect that there is higher prevalence among PWD group compared to those without disabilities; and 3) how there are no state mechanisms for inclusion of PWDs in policy making. Among women seeking PAC. Aside from the stigma against them, women seeking PAC also do not have access to redress when met with violations of their right under the RH Law since abortion is criminalized. Numerous are cases of women who were denied or delayed of PAC services; or who were detained for the being implied to having abortion; or who pleaded guilty to abortion in order to avoid prosecution. Among people with chronic illnesses. In a case documented by the Philippine Alliance of Persons with Chronic Illness of a woman who struggled with breast cancer, the following barriers were present: lack of volunteer interpreter, dependence of the woman informal work, experience with service delay (medical processing not fast enough), lack of government support (donation from LGU of P500 – could have been more if she was voter), and lack of access to proper medical attention resulting to death (costs were beyond her capacity). All these led to woman dying within a year after diagnosis without treatment. Underlying these are issues of the violation of the right to work, health, social protection; the faulty DOH policy for free chemotherapy that excluded the woman given the advanced stage of her cancer; the limited services by PhilHealth Z package covering only mastectomy 29