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The RTC, as affirmed by the Court of Appeals, properly convicted appellant of the complex crime of parricide with unintentional abortion in the killing of his seven (7)-month pregnant wife.
11 paź 2022 · Religious, political, and socioeconomic forces influence the Filipino woman's reproductive freedoms beyond abortion. Unintended pregnancy remains a public health challenge in the Philippines because of limited access to contraception and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services.
Despite advances in reproductive health law, many Filipino women experience unintended pregnancies, and because abortion is highly stigmatized in the country, many who seek abortion undergo unsafe procedures. This report provides a summary of reproductive health indicators in the Philippines—in particular, levels of contraceptive use ...
The facts are as follows: For over a century, abortion has been criminalized in the Philippines. The criminal provisions on abortion do not contain a clear exception allowing abortion, including to save the life of the pregnant woman or to protect her health.
Over half of all pregnancies are unintended and over half of these unintended pregnancies end in abor-tion.11 Seventeen percent of Filipino women have an unmet need for family planning, an estimate projected to rise by 67% in 2020, due to community quarantine-related service disruptions.2 Such unmet needs may be partly due to the deep-seated pol...
19 gru 2022 · Unsafe abortion contributes significantly to preventable maternal mortality in the country yet remains the sole option for many young, low-income, and rural women, 1,3 as 75% of Filipino women seeking abortions are financially unable to raise another child.
21 lis 2023 · Women’s rights advocates in the Philippines have long fought for the decriminalization of abortion, citing study after study that shows that women in the Philippines are forced to undergo...
