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http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/insights/08/06/10/filipino-women-need-safe-and-legal-abortion-rp

This article is arguing to get abortion legalized in the Philippines. The argument is that every year many women die or are hospitalized because they practice unsafe methods to have an abortion. The article is trying to say that if abortion were legal, then women would be able to have a safe abortion, and not nearly as many women would die or be injured. Attorney Padilla is making claims about reducing the number of unsafe abortions and using her job at the Center for Reproductive Rights to make her seem like an authority figure. In reality, there is never any evidence to prove that the center is a reliable source of statistics or that Padilla even knows what she is talking about. While it is likely that the statistics are accurate, the center has no real knowledge on the morality of the issue. Padilla is simply making claims on her own beliefs because she has no evidence to support the fact that legalizing abortion would decrease the number of women dying. She doesn’t even take into consideration the fact that fetuses need to be killed in order for the mother to have a better chance of survival.