Philippines Tears of Illegal Abortions and Over-population of Manila Undercover News P1

In the next 30 years the population of the Philippines is set to double to 170 million. Contraceptives are frowned on and abortion is illegal every year more than half a million Filipina women are so desperate they undergo harrowing illegal abortions, despite the fact that at least 80,000 end up seriously ill in hospital.
Metro Manila, where 35% of its 12 million inhabitants live in slums. Not many of them have jobs and many women are desperate to avoid large families which they cant support.

The Filipino Catholic church holds rallies against abortion and it is backed by wealthy American pro-life groups such as Operation Outcry. The Christian Right in the US is pushing the Bush government into stopping foreign aid to clinics giving contraception advice.

Remy whose two previous attempts at abortion ended in failure. Pregnant with a third child, she was so desperate she took bitter herbs, threw herself out of a window then massaged her abdomen until she started bleeding.

The team talks to a Helot a traditional midwife who provides induced abortions to poor women. Concealing her identity as shes very scared of reprisals, the Helot explains how she charges £7 to carry out the procedure, without any anaesthetic. Many patients end up in hospital, and some of them on the verge of death.

For those women who can afford it, the alternative to a Helot is an illegal clinic charging £60 a session. one clinic where a terrified 17-year-old about to undergo an abortion tells Obaid Chinay that having given birth just three months before and already pregnant she has now other choice.

the Mayor of Manila, Lito Atienza. Vehemently against abortions, he says that contraceptives are a poison against a womans body. He tells the programme that the number of abortions is being controlled, that the number of illegal clinics is diminishing, that the authorities are clearing up the stalls selling illegal herbs and drugs and overall, women are careful not to indulge in abortions.

Obaid Chinay visits one such area of stalls which the Mayor claimed to have cleared up. She is able to easily buy the herbs and drugs needed to induce abortion. Ironically situated next to a church, the location sums up the terrible dilemma facing so many women in the Philippines.

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[OneCatholic]

@ashatbulaparanormal You have been lied to by the system. It's not your fault.

"Abortion and contraception are inextricably intertwined in their use. As the idea of family planning spreads through a community there appears to be a rise in the incidence of induced abortion at the point where the community begins to initiate the use of contraceptives."

— Malcolm Potts, former Medical Director for International Planned Parenthood

[MyLegendarySelf]

4:41 - 5:08

5:59 - 6:43

Truth.

[dianalee84]

I'm American, but seeing these Very well fed Americans going to a poor country and feeding themtotal lies about contraception/abortion is disgusting.Theocracies based upon superstition causes so many problems in the world,and hurts women the most.Shamefull. And the R.C.C is hardly a reputable corperation to be advising about morality when it pertains to sex/children.

[Peopstup]

So they have what they want. From me NO donations.

[sam888ization]

The narrow minded catholic and the many so do gooders in the Philippines never ends. This American woman is full of bullshit!

I can only wish that men in the Philippines should open their eyes, if they can't afford to feed their children let alone go to school, stop and control their urge to have sex if they don't know how to do a proper use of their bloody ugly penis!!!!

It is just a bloody common sense, but the church keep them poor and uneducated, so they can have more members .. bastard!

[MyLegendarySelf]

@TheYipedo Financially biased does not equate to "liars." The latter is far easier to defend against. It's obvious why you chose the words you chose.

Your use of "propaganda" and "furthering religion" is laughable, absolutely pathetic. You really think you can accommodate for not having an argument by attacking religion?

[TheYipedo]

@MyLegendarySelf Yes because all these major health organizations are liars because they don't agree with you, right? I think it's pathetic and disgusting to go to third world countries who are already in need of help and abuse the uneducated with non-sensical propaganda just to further one's religion. And the worst part is you're the one accusing them of politicizing it when it's the pro-lifers who keeps on pushing this issue when the myth has been long ago busted.

[vgman94]

@mosquitobight Quite true. People in the Phillipines are brainwashed into thinking abortions are bad when the population is destroying any quality of life people are having there. It's sickening. The Church is one of the most vile institutions ever made. The Church only cares about power and uses their religion as a ruse.

[mosquitobight]

For 400 years the Spanish humiliated, exploited, enslaved and tortured the Philippines. But one of the worst things they did was make the country Catholic. The Church continues to this day to cripple the Philippines' efforts to educate, develop, modernize and become wealthy. Christianity belongs in Asia like a cowboy boot belongs on a ballerina.

[jimmytwoshoes2009]

stupid congressman!!!he is a pig!!!what the hell are you talking about congressman!!?make more filipino people to send to other country to be slaves???go to hell!

[ferrero8]

my goodness!!!! 4:44-4:48 we are not from the other country,why do you want to sell your own people outside your country??the reason why Filipinos go to other country, it's because there in NO Sustainable Job here... and the competition amongst fellow Filipino is very though because we are too crowded!!! innocent souls are produced everyday here....you have to make an action....they do abortion because they know they can't feed their children,and they have to go to school as well!!

[MyLegendarySelf]

@TheYipedo Fail. Try giving me a source that isn't financially biased to "find" your results. Wake up.