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    1) Abortion is banned in the Philippines under all circumstances. As a result, an estimated 560,000 women undergo illegal and unsafe abortions each year. 2) Unsafe abortion procedures often involve inserting catheters or ingesting herbs and lead to complications in 90,000 women and 1,000 deaths annually. 3) Women's rights groups argue that the ban has failed to prevent abortion and instead endangered women's health and lives. Greater access to contraception and legal abortion could reduce unsafe procedures.

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    1) Abortion is banned in the Philippines under all circumstances. As a result, an estimated 560,000 women undergo illegal and unsafe abortions each year. 2) Unsafe abortion procedures often involve inserting catheters or ingesting herbs and lead to complications in 90,000 women and 1,000 deaths annually. 3) Women's rights groups argue that the ban has failed to prevent abortion and instead endangered women's health and lives. Greater access to contraception and legal abortion could reduce unsafe procedures.

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    1) Abortion is banned in the Philippines under all circumstances. As a result, an estimated 560,000 women undergo illegal and unsafe abortions each year. 2) Unsafe abortion procedures often involve inserting catheters or ingesting herbs and lead to complications in 90,000 women and 1,000 deaths annually. 3) Women's rights groups argue that the ban has failed to prevent abortion and instead endangered women's health and lives. Greater access to contraception and legal abortion could reduce unsafe procedures.

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    1) Abortion is banned in the Philippines under all circumstances. As a result, an estimated 560,000 women undergo illegal and unsafe abortions each year. 2) Unsafe abortion procedures often involve inserting catheters or ingesting herbs and lead to complications in 90,000 women and 1,000 deaths annually. 3) Women's rights groups argue that the ban has failed to prevent abortion and instead endangered women's health and lives. Greater access to contraception and legal abortion could reduce unsafe procedures.

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    Can an embryo feel pain?

    During pregnancy, human life is medically referred to as an


    embryo during its first 56, 61, or 91 days (sources differ). Later it
    is called a fetus until it is born.
    Many pro-life groups emphasize that embryos start to develop
    pain sensors a few weeks after conception. Many readers of their
    literature then assume that embryos can feel pain from this point
    in pregnancy onwards. However all available evidence shows that
    even though these sensors develop early in pregnancy, human
    embryos cannot actually sense pain. Certain major components
    of the central nervous system that are necessary to feel pain are
    not present and functioning.
    One can only imagine the needless pain and anxiety felt by
    women who believe -- on the basis of some pro-life literature --
    that their embryos have suffered pain during an abortion,
    miscarriage, or emergency treatment for an ectopic pregnancy.

    Can a fetus feel pain?


    Many physicians and medical researchers believe that fetuses
    can begin to feel pain sometime during the third trimester. This is
    long after:

    Essentially all miscarriages occur,

    Ectopic pregnancies have been dealt with, and

    After about 99% of abortions are performed.


    Some researchers suggest fetuses cannot sense pain, no matter
    how far along in pregnancy. They believe that pain can only be
    felt after birth.
    Some pro-life physicians believe that fetuses can feel pain much
    earlier in pregnancy.
    Women's rights groups today (Monday) called for the abortion to
    be partly legalised in the Philippines after reports that an
    estimated half a million turn to unsafe procedures each year.
    The Philippines, a poor, mostly Catholic country, bans all forms of
    abortion no matter what the details of the case are.
    About 560,000 Filipino women turn each year to illegal and
    unsafe abortions, including inserting catheters into the uterus
    and ingesting herbs or other concoctions sold in the streets.
    The study released today by New York-based Centre for
    Reproductive Rights showed that about 90,000 of those women
    suffer from complications and about 1,000 die every year.
    The centre said the Philippine government was directly
    responsible for the crisis and accused it of neglecting the rights of
    these women by not solving the effects of the ban.
    “Criminalisation of abortion has not prevented abortion in the
    Philippines, but it has made it extremely unsafe,” the report says.
    Nancy Northup, the centre’s president, said in a statement out
    yesterday that the capital, Manila “has created a dire human
    rights crisis” with hundreds of thousands of women resorting to
    unsafe abortion “to protect their health, their families and their
    livelihood. Yet, the government sits idly by, refusing to tackle the
    issue or reform the policies that exacerbate it.”
    Poor women with no way of accessing contraceptive services
    often resort to illegal and mostly unsafe abortions. Among the
    abortion methods the study mentions are abdominal massages,
    taking anti-ulcer drugs like Cytotec to bring on contractions, and
    taking herbs and potions. These often cause complications like
    haemorrhage, damage to internal organs, and even death, the
    study says. And most of the women interviewed for the report
    “had resorted to abortion more than once, and they had tried
    more than one risky method each time.”
    “If women had greater control over their fertility through effective
    methods of family planning and access to unbiased, truthful
    medical information, there would be far fewer unplanned
    pregnancies” and fewer women “would be compelled to resort to
    unsafe abortions,” the study says.
    The ban doesn’t work to prevent women from ending unwanted
    pregnancies, said lawyer Clara Rita Padilla, from the women’s
    rights organisation, EnGendeRights Inc. "The impact of lack of
    access to safe and legal abortion is a grave public health issue in
    the Philippines, " she said. "Our Congress should address this
    issue by passing a law that expressly allows safe and legal
    abortion."

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