226 http://www. skepticink.com/tippling/201 3/05/0 5/conscientious-objection-toabortion -cathoIic-midwives-win-appeal/; last visited February 22, 2014 227 http://ukhumanrightsblog.com/20 13/05/03/conscientious-objection-to-abortioncatholic-midwives-win-appeal; last visited February 22 , 2014 228 453 Phil. 440 (2003). 229 Fernando on the Philippine Constitution, 1974 ed. , p. 565; See Dissenting Opinion Makasiar, Garcia v. The Faculty Admission Committee G. R. No. L-40779, November 28, 1975. 230 TSN , August 13, 201 3, pp. 52-54. 231 TSN, August27, 201 3, pp. 71-72 232 Islamic Da'wah Council of the Philippines v. Office of the Executive Secretary of the Office of the President of the Philippines, supra note 228 at 450. 233 http://fatherbemasblogs. blogspot.com/2011 _02_0 !_archive.html ; last vi sited February 15, 2014. 234 Estrada v. Escritor, supra note 210. 235 TSN , Aug ust 27 , 201 3, p. 130. 236 http ://www. lifenews.com/2011 /09/01 /philippines-sees-matemal-mortalitvdecline-without-abortion; last visited March 9, 2014 [Researchers from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation of the University of Washington in Seattle examined maternal mortality rates in 181 countries and found the rate (the number of women's deaths per 100,000) dropped by 81 percent in the Philippines between .1980 and 2008. The decrease comes as the largely Catholic nation has resister efforts to legalize abortions, even though the United Nations and pro-abortion groups claim women will supposedly die in illegal abortions and increase the maternal mortality rate if abortion is prohibited. The 2010 study, published in Lancet, shows the Philippines outpaced firstworld nations like Germany, Russia and Israel - where abortions are legal - in cutting maternal mortality rates. Meanwhile, the National Statistical Coordination Board in the Philippines, according to Spero Forum, has shown the same results. From 1990-2010, the daily maternal mortality rate dropped 21 percent, its figures indicated. The World Health Organization also found that the Filipino maternal mortality rate dropped 48 percent from 1990 to 2008. 237 TSN, July 23, 2013 , p. 23.