News tagged with "abortion"

Advocates claim RH law will reduce abortion

Women’s groups in the Philippines are claiming that a proposed reproductive health bill will reduce abortion by promoting “modern family planning”.

Rights group attacks Philippines abortion ban

The New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights has attacked a ban on abortion in the Philippines saying that it has caused a “human rights crisis”.

Life Academy studies post-abortion syndrome

Pontifical Academy for Life president, Archbishop Ignacio Carrasco de Paula, has announced that the academy is preparing a document on the effects of abortion on women, often called post-abortion syndrome.

Bishops cite Cory on contraception proposals

Citing the heritage of the late Cory Aquino and concerns about maternal health, Philippines bishops have called on President Benigno Aquino III not to support controversial reproductive health proposals.

East Timor abortion laws lauded

“The Church,” said Bishop of Dili, Dom Alberto Ricardo Da Silva, “has a duty and a call to contribute to the well-being of women and children and their families.” (James Tillman, LifeSiteNews.com)

Pro-Life Philippines

Pro-Life Philippines is a non-profit organisation of citizen, promoting initiatives and services against abortion and destruction of life.

Facebook - Human Life International

The stridently pro-life and anti-abortion Human Life International’s presence on Facebook boasts notes, videos and other uploads that rally to the cause of the unborn.

‘Forced’ abortions on the rise in US

A US anti-abortion group says that evidence is growing that most - not some - abortions are unwanted or coerced, and many are forced.

Hospital nun ‘excommunicated’ over abortion

Phoenix Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted is reported to have confirmed that hospital administrator Sr Margaret McBride has been “automatically excommunicated” over an abortion performed on a critically ill patient.