Women’s groups in the Philippines are claiming that a proposed reproductive health bill will reduce abortion by promoting “modern family planning”.
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”.
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.
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.
“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 is a non-profit organisation of citizen, promoting initiatives and services against abortion and destruction of life.
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.
A US anti-abortion group says that evidence is growing that most - not some - abortions are unwanted or coerced, and many are forced.
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.
Pietro Molla, husband of St Gianna Beretta Molla, who gave her life for her unborn child, has died near Milan aged 97.
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