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      Calypso

      Kimberly dela Cruz

      Calypso examines the state of reproductive health and women's rights in the Philippines.

In the Philippines, reproductive rights remain a controversial topic. A predominantly Catholic country, it took more than a decade for a reproductive health law to be passed that grants access to free contraception and teach sex education in schools.

Even with the Reproductive Health Act, there’s still a lack of understanding of modern birth control methods resulting in many unplanned pregnancies. Fabella Hospital bears witness to that, delivering around 60 babies a day for families from poor communities in Metro Manila and nearby provinces.

Access to modern contraception is still limited in some areas. Women travel for hours to reach clinics that could provide them pills, condoms, and other birth control devices. Minors need parental consent for this, leading to a large number of teenage pregnancies in the country. Abortion remains illegal and women are forced to gamble their lives in backdoor abortion clinics. Some are left bleeding for days, afraid of seeking medical help.

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Kimberly dela Cruz

Kimberly dela Cruz

Philippines

Kimberly dela Cruz is an independent photographer and journalist based in the Philippines. She began her career as a photo correspondent for the Philippine Daily Inquirer, a local broadsheet, before transitioning to documentary photography and freelancing for different publications.

Since July 2016, dela Cruz has been covering the war on drugs in the Philippines, and she co-produced “Si Kian,” a children’s book on the murder of Kian Delos Santos that won a National Children’s Book Award. In 2018, she was selected as a fellow for the International Women’s Media Foundation and was sent to cover migration, LGBTQI, and women’s issues in El Salvador.

Dela Cruz has been shortlisted for the Alexia Foundation Grant and Inge Morath Award by Magnum Foundation. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Guardian, Time, Al Jazeera, Buzzfeed News, The Irish Times, Nikkei Asian Review and in exhibits across the globe.

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