Duterte: No Building Casino in Boracay

President Duterte is against the building a casino in the island of Boracay, Philippines.

“Far from it actually. I never said building anything or even a nipa hut there,” Duterte said in a press conference in Davao City before flying to China.

“Walang plano diyang casino-casino. Tama na iyan kasi sobra na. May casino dito, casino doon,” he added.

(There is no plan to build a casino there. Stop already because they’re too much. There’s a casino here, a casino there.)

The President's announcement came as Galaxy Macau's Galaxy Entertainment Group and its local  partner, AB Leisure Exponent Inc., stated their plan of a $500-million integrated casino resort in the prominent island resort.

Duterte said Filipinos would not obtain anything from building a casino in Boracay.

“Bakit bigyan ko kayo diyan ng casino? Ano’ng makuha ng Pilipino diyan? Lahat ‘yan,” he said.

(Why would I give you a casino? What will the Filipinos get out of it? All of it.)

The President said he would likewise sign a decree to declare a state of calamity.

“Now if you are asking of a financial help, I am going to sign the proclamation of calamity. And we can make available about P2 billion of assistance but these are only for the poor Filipinos,” he said.

“I will not spend any single centavo for those inns there, hotel owners or motels. At ‘yung magagandang bahay (And for the beautiful houses), do not expect me to pay anything,” he added.

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DUTERTE: Therapeutic abortion is allowed to save woman’s lives

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO — Therapeutic abortion, or the medical procedure that ends pregnancy to be able to spare the life of a woman, is permitted in the Philippines, according to a women's health group.

The group put forth the statement in response to the anti-abortion posture President Duterte conveying his State of the Nation Address.

Senator Pimentel (left), President Duterte (center), House of Representatives (Alvarez)

“In Philippine jurisprudence, it is recognized that therapeutic abortion is allowed to save the life of the woman,” lawyer Clara Rita Padilla, EnGendeRights executive director, said.

“Even Fr. Joaquin Bernas, a constitutionalist and a priest, has opined that abortion is allowed under the 1987 Constitution to save the life of the woman. Legal medicine books by Filipino medico-legal writers recognize the right to therapeutic abortions to preserve the life of the woman and to preserve her health,” Padilla said in a statement.

“In law, practice and policy, therapeutic abortions are allowed,” she asserted.

Among the female diseases or medical conditions for which abortion might led to dwarfism, hypertensive disorders, tuberculosis, diabetes, bronchial asthma, goiter, HIV, malaria, extreme iron deficiency and malnutrition. These are illnesses that are harder to prevent among poor, rural and young women, Padilla said.

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“Pregnant women who are less than 18 [years old] or [older] than 35 years of age, have a fourth or more children, are battered by their husbands or partners, and have spinal metal plates, may die from complications from pregnancy and childbirth and may need access to safe abortion to save their lives and prevent life-long disability,” she said.

Women who endured rape and incest frequently depend to unsafe abortion, as indicated by Padilla.

“Abortion is common in the Philippines with about 70 women inducing abortion every hour. Due to lack of access to safe and legal abortion, three women die every day from unsafe abortion complications and 11 women are hospitalized every hour,” Padilla said.

EnGendeRights has campaigned for safe and legal abortion to spare the lives of women. 

Padilla said one of the first judicial rulings on abortion was the Supreme Court choice in the 1961 instance of Geluz v. CA. The court handled this controversial topic when the doctor who performed an abortion on a woman was sued for damages by her husband. 

As per Padilla, several nations where Catholicism is widespread have changed laws on abortion, leaving the Philippines as “one of a handful countries worldwide which continue to penalize their women and adolescent girls for having abortions.”

Source: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/917566/duterte-told-therapeutic-abortion-allowed-to-save-womens-lives