I AM PRO-LIFE BUT I AM ALSO PRO-CHOICE

Right To Rage About The Abortion Issue

My long-ago encounters with babies for sale

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THIS big issue, the repeal by the US Supreme Court of the Roe vs Wade decision, is currently fuelling protests by pro-choice and women’s rights advocates.

I am not strictly anti-abortion myself. I lean more on the rights of women to choose (but not towards unrestricted abortion and the alleged at-birth and after-birth right to abortion).

However, I’m not joining this political issue that drives an explosive wedge between the two parties in the US.

Instead, I’d like to share my few personal encounters with people, when I was living in the Philippines, who bought — literally, for cash — babies whose birth mothers could not even afford unsafe and illegal abortion.

In the Philippines, a predominantly Catholic country, abortion is banned. It had been made a crime since 1930. Women who resorted to this and those performing the abortion, by Philippine law, could be jailed for up to six years.

This very strict law, on top of the social stigma attached to the termination procedure itself, is a concern that, in my opinion, should be revisited by concerned groups and advocates to protect women and…