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Illegalization of Abortion in The Philippines

Abortion is currently illegal in the Philippines based on the 1987 constitution which recognizes the sanctity of life from conception. While some argue legalizing abortion could help women's health by allowing safe procedures, others counter that abortion kills an innocent human life and is therefore immoral and a crime. Abortion also poses health risks to women like complications from unsafe procedures and threats of prosecution over miscarriages. Overall the document examines the debate around legalizing abortion in the Philippines from various ethical, health, and legal perspectives.

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Illegalization of Abortion in The Philippines

Abortion is currently illegal in the Philippines based on the 1987 constitution which recognizes the sanctity of life from conception. While some argue legalizing abortion could help women's health by allowing safe procedures, others counter that abortion kills an innocent human life and is therefore immoral and a crime. Abortion also poses health risks to women like complications from unsafe procedures and threats of prosecution over miscarriages. Overall the document examines the debate around legalizing abortion in the Philippines from various ethical, health, and legal perspectives.

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Andy Joe Atilano

II- ICT
Illegalization of Abortion in the Philippines

Abortion is the ending of pregnancy by removing a fetus or embryo before it can survive

outside the uterus. Historically, abortions have been attempted using herbal medicines, sharp

took, with force or through other traditional methods. In many places there is much debate over

moral, ethical and legal issues of abortion. Those who oppose abortion often maintain that an

embryo or fetus is a human with a right to life and may compare abortion to murder.

In Article 11 of the 1987 Philippines constitution says, in part, “Section 12. The State

recognizes the Sanctity of the family life and shall protect and strengthen the family as a basic

autonomous social institution. It shall equally protect the life of the mother and the life of the

unborn from conception”. If abortion will be legalize, our natural right will be ignored which is

the right to live and promote and protect life; however, choosing abortion is the right thing to do

to those who are force in childbirth. If ever abortion will be legalized, it could provide safety

because women can receive the proper health care required to make sure they are safe and don’t

sustain any life threatening injuries from an unprofessional. However, abortion is not the option,

thus pregnant women need support and help. PPFI advocated more education programs, maternal

and child care services and economic and social development programs that would help stop

“rape, incest, sex outside of marriage and other causes of unwanted pregnancies”. Another one

is, the legalization of abortion would give a peace of mind to the woman, especially when the

pregnancy was a result of rape. She could become depressed, resent the child, be reminded of her

experience every time she sets eyes on her pregnant belly or her child, and she needs to undergo

abortion because of the certain condition. But as Josephine Imbong, a CBCP Legal Counsel said,

abortion should not be allowed under any circumstances, including rape or incest. It will not give

peace of mind to the mother, hence, her conscience will be chasing her for taking the life of the

unborn child, well in fact, and it is not the baby’s fault. The mother should accuse not the baby

but the person who was the reason of her suffering.

Abortion is not safe to women’s health. It is dangerous because it maintains the status

who where many medical providers threaten women with prosecution in cases of intrauterine
fetal death, spontaneous abortion due to trauma from intimate partner violence and self-induced

abortion. In year 2012, it shows that 610,000 women resorted to abortion, over 100,000 women

were hospitalized and 3 women die every day due to unsafe abortion complications. According

also to methodology, estimates of deaths vary and it have ranged from 37,000 to 70,000 in the

past decade, deaths from unsafe abortion account for around 13% of all maternal death. Abortion

is a crime. Individual human life begins at fertilization, and therefore abortion is the immoral

killing of an innocent human being. It inflicts suffering on the unborn child, and that, it is unfair

to allow abortion when couples who cannot biologically conceive are waiting to adopt. A push to

legalize abortion in the Philippines is “unacceptable” because the country “Should be saving

lives, not taking them.” The act is criminalized by Philippine law. Articles 256,258 AND 259 0f

the Revised Penal Code of the Philippines mandate imprisonment for women who undergo

abortion, as well as for any person who assist in the procedure. According to CPCP New, the

Pro- Life Philippines Foundation, Inc. (PPFI) has countered that induced abortion is “the

deliberate termination of the life of an innocent human being and therefore, it is a crime.” Life

begins at conception, so unborn babies are human being with a right to life. Upon fertilization,

human individual is created with a unique genetic identity that remains unchanged throughout

his or her life. This individual has a fundamental right to life, which must be protected. Jerome

Lejeune, the French geneticist who discovered the chromosome abnormality that causes Down

syndrome, stated that “To accept the fact that after fertilization has taken place a new human has

come into being is no longer a matter of taste or opinion. The human nature of human being from

conception to old age is not a metaphysical contention, it is plain experimental evidence.”

Abortion is not safe to women’s health because there are complications due to unsafe

abortion. There are also providers threaten women with prosecution in cases of intrauterine fetal

dental and spontaneous abortion due to trauma from self induced abortion. Abortion is also

considered as a crime because the human life begins at fertilization, and killing the innocent

human being is immoral. Life begins at conception so unborn babies are human being with a

right to life. This individual has a fundamental right to life, which must be protected.

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