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Abortion in the Philippines is constitutionally prohibited. [1] The constitutional provision that "[The State] shall equally protect the life of the mother and the life of the unborn from conception" was crafted by the Constitutional Commission which drafted the charter with the intention of providing for constitutional protection of the abortion ban, although the enactment of a more ...
WGNRR was an active participant in the International Conference "Reinforcing Reproductive Rights", held in Madras, India, in 1993. It was this year that WGNRR began campaigning for safe and legal abortion. [7] WGNRR's position on abortion was critical during the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994. According to ...
The Philippines is the 39th most densely populated country, with a density over 335 per square kilometer, [21] and the population growth rate is 1.9% (2010 Census), [22] 1.957% (2010 est. by CIA World Factbook), or 1.85% (2005–2010 high variant estimate by the UN Population Division, World Population Prospects: The 2008 Revision) coming from ...
Research suggests people have abortions later in pregnancy for two main reasons: They've learned new information — for example, realizing they're pregnant after the first trimester, discovering ...
This is who is affected by abortion legislation.
In the Philippines, abortion has been illegal and criminalized for over a century. This is mainly due to Spanish colonial-era influences in Filipino life, notably Catholicism. It is under the Penal Code 1870 that abortion was first criminalized, and from there the Revised Penal Code 1930 adapted the same criminalizing law.
A misreading of the 2022 midterm elections led some to believe abortion would propel Democrats to victory in 2024.
Smith even flew to Kenya the next year to lobby against abortion rights in person. “My belief is that we need to protect life to the greatest extent possible,” he says, when asked whether women raped in conflict should be able to get abortions. “Abortion methods are violence against children—dismemberment, chemical poisoning.