As early as 2006, the CEDAW Committee has recommended for the Philippines to remove the punitive provisions on abortion. Â In its 2023 Concluding Observations, over 17 years later since its initial 2006 recommendation, the...
In an effort to save women's lives, the Philippine Safe Abortion Advocacy Network (PINSAN) is proposing a bill to decriminalize abortion in the Philippines. Atty. Clara Rita Padilla, initiated the drafting of the bill...
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 archaic 1930 Revised Penal Code abortion law has never reduced...