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The scourge of illegal abortions

is the story of these women Thorn. The prohibition of an act which merely amplify, and lethal when it seeks to prevent.

The Philippines is one of only four countries in the world to ban abortion without exception that the pregnancy is the result of rape, incest or the mother's life is in danger The woman who wears this fetus has no recourse to stop this pregnancy. Worse, it is liable to several years in prison if she does



But Puritanism has moral and legal fact, for decades, amplifies this phenomenon: several s 500 000 illegal abortions would and held annually, two times more than legal in France and made in the shade of unsanitary buildings, using non-sterile instruments to the source of deadly infections, or taking abortifacient drugs that cause strong uncontrollable bleeding.

Under such conditions, it is not only the life of the fetus is at risk, but the mother. Over 1000 women die each year due to complications of clandestine abortions.

International Report comes first draw a picture on psychological and health consequences of the "criminalization" of abortion. This comprehensive report, exciting and alarming, is the result of a two-year investigation conducted by the American NGO The Center for Reproductive Rights . He relied on the testimony of many women who have made themselves their abortion, doctors, obstetricians Filipino, and politicians. It

seeks to show the severe limitations of the Philippine health system that lacks help these desperate women: there is no first morning after pill in cases of rape or contraceptive accident, because it is considered an abortion pill by the clergy and some members. Drugs deemed essential by the profession, such as misoprostol, to remove a fetus from the womb of the deceased mother, is also prohibited, and inaccessible to most gynecologists.

least, some doctors condemn morally these women resort to abortions, and arrive in blood in their emergency services. Some of the insult, stigmatize, and neglect their care. Even threaten to report them to police. A violation of the basic right of women to health, as said Melissa Upreti, Head of Asia for the NGO Center for Reproductive Rights.

" Despite constitutional guarantees of religious freedom and separation of church and state, the Catholic hierarchy has undermined women's reproductive rights, including the right to abortion.
The criminalization of abortion has led the Philippine government in a situation of violation of international laws, putting women's health in danger, and calls into question the right of women to health, life and non-discrimination . "The clergy

, actor extremely influential politically and morally on the issues, meanwhile, denies any development of the law:
" Abortion can not be defended, because life begins at conception, or at the moment of encounter between the sperm and ovum, and therefore we must protect this life, "said Father Melvin Castro, general secretary of the Committee on Family and life in the Conference Episcopal.

Such intransigence which also applies to cases of rape, for the priest: " We can not respond to the crime of rape while committing another crime, that of killing the fetus. Instead, we always advise the woman if she can keep the child, to pass it "

To better understand this societal debate, and hear these women who have hidden had to resort to unsafe abortions, risking their lives, I invites you to listen the documentary I made for RFI .
You can also read my article published in TIME .

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Ampatuan trial begins: the end of impunity? The Philippines

is an important event that just took place in the special courtroom in Manila, but it is just the beginning. And who knows if we'll one day end.
The massacre trial Maguindanao has formally begin with hearings on the merits on September 8. On November 23, 2009, 57 people were brutally murdered, caught between the fires of a war of political clans in search of their electoral survival.
The names of those responsible for this unspeakable massacre are known: Ampatuan, feudal lords above all justice in this province, which did little to hide their actions, and just wanted to get rid of the unconscious opposing clan member who dared to stand against them Democratic in this election for the post of governor of Maguindanao!
This trial is therefore that of a whole system of plutocratic mafia clans, and central government that supports them.

But the horror of the massacre is as large as the magnitude of this trial: more than 500 witnesses should be heard at the helm for nearly 200 defendants. The proportions of this trial, which some compare by that of Nuremberg, far exceed the capabilities of the Philippine justice system.

From day one, the guilt of the Ampatuan family as a whole has been brought to light. And since then, the implications are national leaders détaillése. The charges and evidence raining, as usual, in the Philippine system, where the media are doing a great job. Where the Senate is converted half the time in court the media, and most corrupt men named and shamed.

But this Senate has never succeeded in transforming these charges Convictions by a formal Court of Justice because they are either overloaded or corrupted.

So hopefully this new trial will end this part terrible evils that allowed the massacre to take place in broad daylight with impunity.

Here the issues of this trial, in my article Cross