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Committee’s inquiry recommendations?
What steps has the state party taken to ensure women’s and girls’ equal access to
the full range of contraceptive services, including by immediately repealing
discriminatory local laws and policies that violate the RPRHA such as Manila
City’s EOs 003 and 030 and Sorsogon City’s EO 3, and allocating adequate
financial resources to fully implement the RPRHA?
What is the scope and scale of the reorientation trainings conducted in Manila
City for its health personnel? What is the impact of these reorientation trainings
on the availability, accessibility, and affordability of contraceptive information
and services in local health facilities? What is the amount allocated by the local
government of Manila for procurement of modern contraceptives?
What efforts has the state party taken to ensure that the Committee’s
recommendations on the legalization of abortion in cases of rape, incest, threats to
the life and/or health of the pregnant woman, or serious fetal malformation and
decriminalization of all other cases where women undergo abortion, are taken into
consideration during the review of its penal code?
What steps has the state party taken to lift the Supreme Court’s TRO issued in
June 2015 restricting access to specific hormonal contraceptives and prohibiting
the registration and/or recertification for reproductive products and supplies,
including contraceptive drugs and devices?
What measures has the state party taken to withdraw the FDA circular delisting
Postinor and to formally reintroduce EC particularly for women and girls who are
survivors of sexual violence?
What steps has the state party taken to ensure the adoption of a comprehensive
national post-abortion care policy? To what extent has the state party made efforts
to implement the existing PMAC policy and ensure compassionate, nonjudgmental and quality post-abortion care in all public and private health
facilities? What steps have been taken to relist and reintroduce misoprostol, which
is recognized by the WHO as an essential medicine for the treatment of postpartum haemorrhage, incomplete abortion, and miscarriage?
What steps has the state party taken to formally recognize reproductive rights
violations as a result of the implementation of Manila City’s EOs? What role will
the CHR in its capacity as Gender Ombud play in providing individual remedies
for reproductive rights violations resulting from systematic abuses in postabortion care settings and the introduction of discriminatory laws, policies and
executive orders as well as court orders? To what extent have RHOs been
designated and functioning to receive reproductive rights complaints in all LGUs?
The undersigned organizations also respectfully request that this Committee consider
urging the state party to take immediate steps to fully implement the Committee’s inquiry
recommendations and particularly incorporating the following recommendations in its
Concluding Observations to the state party:
1. Ensure women’s and girls’ access to the full range of contraceptive information
and services by allocating adequate funding for contraceptive supplies, restoring
access to emergency contraception in particular to prevent early and unplanned