13 2. 3. 4. 5. e. requiring individual health care providers who refuse to provide care based on religious beliefs in non-emergency cases to refer the patient to an accessible alternative health care provider, f. reintroducing dedicated emergency contraceptives, and g. strengthening the mandate of the Philippine Commission on Human Rights to ensure that its findings of violations and recommendations are binding and legally enforceable? What steps has the state party taken to reduce the incidence of unsafe abortion and high number of maternal deaths arising from abortion complications including by conducting research and gathering data on the incidence of unsafe abortion and its impact on women’s lives and well-being, amending the restrictive provisions on abortion under the Revised Penal Code (RPC), removing the constitutional provision on the equal protection of the life of the pregnant woman and unborn, and facilitating women’s and girls’ access to safe and legal abortion services? What efforts has the state party taken to implement and strengthen the “National Policy on the Prevention of Illegal and Unsafe Abortion and Management of Post-Abortion Complications” (2018 PMAC policy), ensure compassionate, non-judgmental, and quality post-abortion care in all public and private health facilities, and guarantee protection of women’s and girls’ rights to privacy and confidentiality in post-abortion care settings? What steps have been taken to relist and reintroduce misoprostol and address stigma associated with seeking abortion services and treatment for abortion-related complications? What steps has the state party taken to ensure that law and policies as well as judicial orders and decisions do not uphold religious ideologies over women’s health and well-being and continue to undermine women’s and girls’ access to reproductive health services particularly modern contraceptives? What steps has the state party taken to heighten the awareness and education on its obligations under CEDAW of officials at all levels of government and particularly among the members of the Supreme Court and Congress? What steps has the state party taken to ensure that women’s and girls’ fundamental rights, and particularly reproductive rights, are strengthened, respected, and protected, and access to the full range of reproductive health services, particularly abortion and modern and emergency contraceptives, are guaranteed under the proposed new constitution, proposed Code of Crimes, and upcoming review of the Congressional Oversight Committee on Reproductive Health Act? If you have any questions or would like further information, please do not hesitate to contact Jihan Jacob of the Center for Reproductive Rights at jjacob@reprorights.org. Respectfully submitted: Catholics for Reproductive Health Center for Reproductive Rights Filipino Freethinkers Philippine Safe Abortion Advocacy Network WomanHealth Philippines Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights