MANILA, January 29, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Catholic bishops of the Philippines have said that the government should remove all abortifacient drugs and devices from the market to prevent “silent abortions” caused by “silent abortifacients”.
Speaking at the bishops’ 86th plenary assembly on Monday, Bishop Teodoro Bacani of Novaliches asked the government to prepare a list of drugs which either prevented the implantation of an embryo in the womb or displaced an embryo after implantation had taken place.
The bishop also demanded that the government publish an official study prepared during the previous administration which reportedly supported the Church’s claim that drugs commonly thought to be contraceptives and intra-uterine devices were actually abortifacients.
Files from SPUC International news digest