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...
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, the Mexican Supreme Court declared that penalizing abortion is...
Human Rights Advocates Call on Congress to Junk Anti-Choice House Bill No. 8354 and to Support Decriminalization of Abortion
Quezon City, July 26, 2021 – “In President Duterte’s SONA speech, the right to safe and...
We, as a community and civil society organizations working on women’s rights and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) for all, urge legislators to junk House Bill No. 8354, An Act amending the...
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 the Philippines. Watch the whole discussion via this link.
Why is...
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 women from deaths and complications resulting from the lack of...
Atty. Clara Rita Padilla, PINSAN Spokesperson, shares the reasons why we need to decriminalize abortion in the Philippines. Read the full article via this link.
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In the Philippines, the restrictive abortion law prevents women forces women to seek out unsafe methods of abortion. Because of our country’s restrictive abortion law, around 610,000 Filipino women were estimated to have...