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CEDAW Recommendation to Decriminalize Abortion vis-a-vis Senate deferment of CHR budget due to its position supporting Decriminalization of Abortion

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...
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Press Release

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, the Mexican Supreme Court declared that penalizing abortion is...
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Press Release

Right to Safe and Legal Abortion Glaringly Absent in PDu30 SONA

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...
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News

SRHR and Women’s Rights Advocates Urge Law Makers to Junk Anti-Choice Bill

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...
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Features

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 the Philippines. Watch the whole discussion via this link. Why is...
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Press Statement

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 women from deaths and complications resulting from the lack of...
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Features

Why we need to decriminalize abortion

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. A Filipino woman or girl is raped every 75 minutes 1)...
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Press Statement

Public Launch of Bill to Decriminalize Abortion in the Philippines

MEDIA ADVISORY 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...
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