Posted on 07/08/2009 5:26:45 PM PDT by LadyDoc
The average number of Filipino women who die yearly due to childbirth and pregnancy complications has doubled in the last four years, but this doesn’t seem to alarm lawmakers who continue to oppose the reproductive health bill, according to health and women’s groups.
A study by the international reproductive health research group Guttmacher Institute presented Tuesday showed that 3,500 pregnancy-related deaths were recorded in the Philippines in 2008....
Dr. Junice Melgar, executive director of women’s health organization Likhaan, said pregnancy-related deaths could be prevented if pregnant women, especially those who are from the poorest families and living in the rural areas, have easy access to family planning services, pre-natal check-ups, emergency obstetric care, and skilled birth attendants....
“The reason for these (maternal deaths and infant deaths) is plain and simple—Filipinos have very little access or no access to family planning services even if they wanted to,” De Leon said.
Economist Ernesto Pernia of the University of the Philippines said: “Political priorities are taking their front seat, and economic and social priorities, including family planning, health and education priorities, are taking the backseat…. This is practically illustrated by setting aside the RH bill. It has long been in the frontline, but it was set aside by other hot issues.” (Newsbreak)
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They need midwives and clinics to lower the mortality in villages...but the eugenics types want to push family planning as a priority, not keeping people alive.
Medical care would help. I don’t see how killing the baby will reduce the death rate. I also don’t see why its explicitly a problem our government should address. I thought we were supposed to let other countries run themselves.
Charitys of course should get involved. Not too many abortion doctors work on a charity basis though.
Well, of course. Every dead child is a notch on their bedpost.
I will never, EVER understand the left and their Culture of Death obsessions. *SHIVER*
Why is this our financial problem?
Doesn’t The Phillipines have its own legislative bodies?
Family planning services??? Wouldn't more access to family planning services result in even more dead babies?
Hope this House Bill is about the House of Representatives of the Philippines and not the US House of Representatives.
Work experience outside academia: zero.
Surprise, surprise!
Yet another reason why you don’t want the gov’t in charge of charity.
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