Philippines Tears of Illegal Abortions and Over-population of Manila Undercover News P1
February 6th, 2010
In the next 30 years the population of the Philippines is set to double to 170 million. Contraceptives are frowned on and abortion is illegal every year more than half a million Filipina women are so desperate they undergo harrowing illegal abortions, despite the fact that at least 80,000 end up seriously ill in hospital.Metro Manila, where 35% of its 12 million inhabitants live in slums. Not many of them have jobs and many women are desperate to avoid large families which they cant support.The Filipino Catholic church holds rallies against abortion and it is backed by wealthy American pro-life groups such as Operation Outcry. The Christian Right in the US is pushing the Bush government into stopping foreign aid to clinics giving contraception advice. Remy whose two previous attempts at abortion ended in failure. Pregnant with a third child, she was so desperate she took bitter herbs, threw herself out of a window then massaged her abdomen until she started bleeding.The team talks to a Helot a traditional midwife who provides induced abortions to poor women. Concealing her identity as shes very scared of reprisals, the Helot explains how she charges £7 to carry out the procedure, without any anaesthetic. Many patients end up in hospital, and some of them on the verge of death.For those women who can afford it, the alternative to a Helot is an illegal clinic charging £60 a session. one clinic where a terrified 17-year-old about to undergo an abortion tells Obaid Chinay that having given birth just three months before and already pregnant she has now other choice. the Mayor of Manila, Lito Atienza. Vehemently against abortions, he says that contraceptives are a poison against a womans body. He tells the programme that the number of abortions is being controlled, that the number of illegal clinics is diminishing, that the authorities are clearing up the stalls selling illegal herbs and drugs and overall, women are careful not to indulge in abortions.Obaid Chinay visits one such area of stalls which the Mayor claimed to have cleared up. She is able to easily buy the herbs and drugs needed to induce abortion. Ironically situated next to a church, the location sums up the terrible dilemma facing so many women in the Philippines.
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Tags: Abortions, and, Catholic, Filipino, illegal, Manila, Over-population, Philippines
dont worry guys mother nature will take of them n send a big disaster like a huge typhoon, flood or a strong earthquake..to wipe out many..
no food….. no fuck!
you never been i think?
I couldn’t agree with you more,kanfil54
cheers just a shame phils looks like it only get worse with children mothers cant feed.
WolYou, you have to have sex in order to reproduce.if you take away the birth control and condoms and you have sex,mean more children.Right now we have options of birth control, condoms and abortions,once that is taken away from us, guess what our country will turn out just like this country.Get the picture?
Vasectomy and condoms are illegal in that country.Catholic’s and pro-life solution is not to have sex period if you don’t want children.
to you maybe,most men don’t think that way.
reproducing like rabbits. people are just plain stupid. if i would have an existence like that the least idea i would have is to produce children. this people is purely egomaniacs. they dont care what will happen to the kids. men should go and get sterilized. where is the point to produce children? arent we more than enough? the church should shut up. their idea is that overpopulation is okay. suffering is okay. lack of resources is okay. and war is okay.
sterilization is not an option for men and woman in that country,that also too is banned.Catholic’s and pro-life solution is to stop having sex if you don’t want a child. Yeah right,show me one man or woman who’s going to give that up.