pregnancies and in cases of sexual violence, and establishing monitoring and
oversight mechanisms to ensure that discriminatory local ordinances such as the
Manila City’s EOs 003 and 030 and Sorsogon City’s EO 3 are immediately
reviewed and revoked.
2. Legalize abortion in cases of rape, incest, threats to the life, physical or mental
health of the pregnant woman, and in cases of serious fetal malformation and
decriminalize all other cases where women undergo abortion.
3. Ensure women’s and girls’ access to humane, compassionate, non-judgmental,
and quality post-abortion care services in all health care facilities as guaranteed
under the MCW and RPRHA and reintroduce misoprostol for the treatment of
post-partum haemorrhage, incomplete abortion, and miscarriage.
4. Ensure that complaint mechanisms, such as those before the CHR as Gender
Ombud and other judicial and quasi-judicial bodies, provide effective legal
remedies and protection from reprisals for women and girls who file complaints
for violations of reproductive rights including post-abortion care abuse.
Respectfully submitted:
Catholics for Reproductive Health
Center for Reproductive Rights
EnGendeRights
International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific
Population Services Pilipinas Inc.
WomanHealth Philippines Inc.
Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights
1
CEDAW Committee, Combined seventh and eight periodic report of States parties due in 2010,
Philippines, U.N. Doc. CEDAW/C/PHL/7-8 (date received Jan. 2015).
2
CEDAW Committee, Replies of the Philippines to the list of issues and questions in relation to the
combined seventh and eighth periodic reports of the Philippines, U.N. Doc.
CEDAW/C/PHL/Q/7-8/Add.1 (2016) [hereinafter Replies to List of Issues].
3
Committee Against Torture, Concluding Observations: Philippines, paras. 38, 39 (2016).
4
CEDAW Committee, Summary of the inquiry concerning the Philippines under Article 8 of the Optional
Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, U.N. Doc.
CEDAW/C/OP.8/PHL/1 (2015) [hereinafter CEDAW Committee, Inquiry Report].
5
Id., para. 39.
6
An Act Providing for a National Policy on Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health, Rep. Act
No. 10354 (2012) (Phil.) [hereinafter RPRHA].
7
Replies to List of Issues, supra note 2, para. 16.1.
8
Replies to List of Issues, supra note 2, para. 16.2.
9
Declaring Total Commitment and Support to the Responsible Parenthood Movement in the City of Manila