Buhay Hayaan Yumabong (), more popularly known as Buhay Party-List, is a party-list group in the

Philippines The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of List of islands of the Philippines, 7,641 islands, with a tot ...

founded on October 20, 1999, by

Lito Atienza Jose "Lito" Livioko Atienza Jr. (; born August 10, 1941) is a Filipino politician, who served as a 21st Mayor of Manila for three consecutive terms from 1998 to 2007, He also served as the 30th Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources f ...

, Melquiades Robles, and El Shaddai founder Mike Velarde. A

socially conservative Social conservatism is a political philosophy and a variety of conservatism which places emphasis on traditional social structures over social pluralism. Social conservatives organize in favor of duty, traditional values and social institu ...

party-list, Buhay is known for its staunch opposition to abortion and

birth control Birth control, also known as contraception, anticonception, and fertility control, is the use of methods or devices to prevent pregnancy. Birth control has been used since ancient times, but effective and safe methods of birth control only be ...

in its advocacy for the sanctity of life. The party-list is also known for opposing the death penalty, divorce, same sex marriage, and euthanasia. In the 2004 elections for the

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, the party-list group won 705,730 votes (5.55% of the nationwide party-list vote), equivalent to two seats. In 2007, the party won three seats in the nationwide party-list vote. In the 2010 elections, Buhay again won three seats, and ranked third overall. In 2022, Buhay Party List lost their re-election bid after garnering only 103,077 votes, failing to win a single seat for the first time since their founding.

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* {{Philippine political parties Catholic political parties Party-lists represented in the House of Representatives of the Philippines Anti-abortion organizations