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To: Rambi who wrote (10)	2/7/2001 7:07:08 PM
From: Bald Eagle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 51759

RE:4th Century AD – St. Augustine lays down Catholic dogma sanctioning abortion up to 80 days for female fetus and up to 40 days for male fetus. How on earth did they know the sex of the fetus at such an early stage back then?

To: Rambi who wrote (10)	2/7/2001 9:56:30 PM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 51759

Abortion is completely illegal in the Philippines, of course, this being a very Catholic country. It is also very common. There are clinics everywhere; everybody knows where they are and nobody raids them, though I'm sure they have to give free services (on a regular basis) to the partners of policemen. An odd cultural phenomenon: around most Catholic churches here, especially the big ones in the cities, are rows of ramshackle stands selling all manner of candles, statues, amulets, herbal potions supposed to have curing powers, and other strange items of supposedly mystic significance. Among the potions sold, quite openly, is one that is supposed to "bring back menstruation". It is an herbal abortifacient, and everyone knows it, but they go on selling it, right outside the churches. Unfortunately it doesn't work very well: the pregnant woman gets violently ill, and suffers a miscarriage. Sometimes she also dies. Sometimes the fetus doesn't miscarry, and is born badly damaged. But desperate people do desperate things, and as long as the stuff is sold by someone who sells religious amulets, I guess it's ok. Weird world.