RH law will reduce abortion, women’s health advocates say

By PIA FAUSTINO, GMANews.TV

Unsafe abortions in the Philippines will be reduced if the Congress passes a reproductive health bill that will promote modern family planning, several women’s rights advocates said at a forum Wednesday.

“What’s important to us is the prevention [of abortion] and the humane treatment of women seeking post-abortion care," said Dr. Junice Melgar, executive director of the Likhaan Center for Women’s Health.

Likhaan hosted a round-table discussion on the topic and screened a documentary entitled “Agaw-Buhay" (Fighting for Life), which dramatized the true stories of four Filipino women who had suffered complications from unsafe abortions.

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