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CEDAW Recommendation to Decriminalize Abortion vs Senate deferment of CHR budget

As early as 2006, the CEDAW Committee has recommended for the Philippines to remove the punitive provisions on abortion.  In its 2023 Concluding Observations, over 17 years later since its initial 2006 recommendation, the Committee...

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Women’s Rights Advocates Say No to Anti-Women, Anti-People Electoral Candidates

Women’s Rights Advocates Say No to Anti-Women, Anti-People Electoral Candidates, Urge to Support the Decriminalization of Abortion Quezon City, September 10, 2021 - “Last September...

7 reasons why we need to decriminalize abortion

Atty. Clara Rita "Claire" Padilla, spokesperson of PINSAN wrote an article to list the reasons why we need to decriminalize abortion: "The restrictive, colonial, and...

Decriminalize Abortion, Save Women’s Lives — Women’s Rights Advocates Urge Congress to Pass Proposed Bill into Law

Read PINSAN's statement urging Congress to pass the proposed bill to decriminalize abortion and why this bill will save hundreds of thousands of Filipino...

September 28, 2020 — International Safe Abortion Day

On September 28, the Philippine Safe Abortion Advocacy Network (PINSAN) launched the proposed bill to decriminalize abortion in the Philippines entitled, “Act Decriminalizing Induced...

Spilling the Tea, Episode 3: My abortion story

In Rappler's Spilling the Tea series, Episode 3 tackled about abortion stories of women. SRHR advocates also discussed the importance of decriminalizing abortion in...