Abortion in the Philippines: a national secret
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Minda is a masseuse with a difference. Her caress is used to abort fetuses.
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VATICAN CITY -- A Vatican handbook released yesterday laid out Roman Catholic Church teaching questioning preventive war and denouncing the ''horrendous crime&quot; of abortion. But Vatican officials sidestepped questions on whether the war in Iraq was illegal or whether Catholics can vote for candidates who back laws permitting abortion.
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Philippine president Gloria Arroyo warned that her country is in the midst of a fiscal crisis. A report by economists at the University of the Philippines said the country faces economic collapse
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MANILA, Philippines - A grumpy-looking iguana, a slithery python, and an enormous turtle were among a church full of animals blessed in an annual ceremony in the Philippines on Sunday.    The unusual service - which commemorates St...
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REVELATIONS that an NHS-backed charity helped women to travel to Spain for abortions that would be illegal in Britain are proof that the UK - s abortion law should be relaxed, a leading pro-choice campaigner ...
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ARSAW, Poland, NOV. 11, 2004 .- A representative of the Catholic Church in Poland reported the undue interference of U.N. organizations trying to impose the liberalization of abortion in his country.
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[World News]: Vientiane, Nov. 29 : Southeast Asian leaders declared today they would intensify the fight against the trafficking of women and children, describing it as immoral and inhuman.
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PATTRAN, India  - Manual laborer Gulzar Singh is   haunted by the day he exhumed baby fetuses from a pit outside   an abortion clinic in one of the grisliest chapters in India's   fight against female feticide.
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The warning label on the abortion drug is changing as the result of problems predicted by pro-life activists. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is strengthening the warning
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- Jazmina Bojorge arrived at Managua's Fernando VÃÂ©lez Paiz Hospital on a Tuesday evening, nearly five months pregnant and racked with fever and abdominal pain. By the following Thursday morning, both the pretty 18-year-old and the female fetus in her womb were dead.
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Portugal is deciding in a national referendum Sunday whether to discard its strict abortion law, a battle that pits the Socialists government against conservative parties and the Catholic Church.Comment
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DEN HELDER, The Netherlands  - After controversial visits to Ireland and Poland, a Dutch boat made into a floating abortion clinic set sail for Portugal to draw attention to the staunchly Roman Catholic country&#39;s highly restrictive abortion laws.
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Comment is free: George Monbiot: Take the thousands of Filipino children who die every year courtesy of the formula milk corporates, backed by US lobbying.
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COTABATO CITY, Philippines  - For 15 years, Hadja  Bainon Karon fought in the southern Philippine jungle for a  Muslim homeland, losing five brothers and a husband in the  conflict.
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Thirty-five years ago on Tuesday the US Supreme Court handed down a decision in the Roe versus Wade case, legalizing abortion and introducing some of the world's least restrictive abortion laws.
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Family planning groups outside of the United States would be allowed to receive contraceptives from the U.S. government under a Democratic plan moving through the U.S. House of Representatives that could prompt a veto by President George W. Bush.
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Plans to identify potential troublemakers in the womb are defended because state intervention 'works'.