By KAELA MALIG, GMA News
Published May 25, 2021
Women's rights organizations urged legislators to decriminalize abortion as women continue to die from unsafe abortion complications.
In a media workshop on Tuesday, EnGendeRights executive director Atty. Claire Padilla said that the restrictive 1930 Revised Penal Code abortion law has not stopped the number of women from inducing abortion but has only endangered lives of hundreds of women who undergo unsafe abortions due to several personal reasons.
Continued: https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/nation/788842/women-s-rights-orgs-urge-authorities-to-decriminalize-abortion/story/
Women's rights orgs urge authorities to decriminalize abortion
By KAELA MALIG, GMA News
Published May 25, 2021
Women's rights organizations urged legislators to decriminalize abortion as women continue to die from unsafe abortion complications.
In a media workshop on Tuesday, EnGendeRights executive director Atty. Claire Padilla said that the restrictive 1930 Revised Penal Code abortion law has not stopped the number of women from inducing abortion but has only endangered lives of hundreds of women who undergo unsafe abortions due to several personal reasons.
Continued: https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/nation/788842/women-s-rights-orgs-urge-authorities-to-decriminalize-abortion/story/