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Mothers and their newborns share space on a bed after giving birth in the maternity ward at the government-run Jose Fabella maternity hospital in Manila, Philippines.
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A woman holds a cross while dealing with labor pains at the government-run Jose Fabella maternity hospital.
More than 65 babies are born at the government operated Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital in Manila, Philippines every day.
Manila is one of the most densely populated cities in the world and many of the city dwellers are forced to live on every bit of spare land they can find. Poverty causes people to live under bridges, railway lines and even cemeteries.
Getty Images photographer Paula Bronstein created these images on Aug. 18-20 and made them available to NBCNews.com today.
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A mother is in pain while her newborn baby rests on her chest as she gets surgically sutured after giving birth in a delivery room at the Jose Fabella Hospital.
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A mother is seen on the operation table next to her new baby moments after a Caesarean operation.
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Mothers breast feed their babies in a special room at the Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital.
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It's not about the babies it's about keeping the Dick warm..
live under bridges.raise your family in a cemetary.pro-choice or......
I just hope no American resources (food, clothing, medicine, etc) is sent to this country for aid....they need to learn to control their people population!
If you cant even feed your people let alone anything else that's a staple in life then why keep having them....if we send them even 1 thing all it does is keep the cycle going!
Help keep the pet population down spay and neuter your pets ...the same thing has to apply this over exploding human population.
this planet does not have enough resources to continue this crazy birthing of baby after baby!
This will eventually lead to our next major war..it will no doubt be over water, food and land to harvest the food and trees for lumber and land for their people to live!
I'm from Manila, Philippines...and the VERY REASON they keep having BABIES...is the CATHOLIC CHURCH. The CATHOLIC CHURCH has the country by the "Ying-Yang". They will THREATEN the NON-BELIEVERS with EX-COMMUNICATION from the Church.....and or.......HERESY.
It's EASY to scare a POOR, IGNORANT HUMAN being, it is also EASY to teach them a FALSEHOOD, maybe with gifts of a little FOOD and SHELTER, now and then. Life in Manila NOW....is DIRTY, FILTHY, DANGEROUS, INSANE, and CRAZY.
They had a horrible FLOOD in MANILA in June of 2009. You'd think they would have LEARNED to BUILD infrastructures to protect AGAINST flooding. NOTHING seems to have been accomplished. They had ANOTHER Flooding in 2012, three years later. The SAME THING......more people DIED. It takes the Filipino about a HUNDRED YEARS....before he can get anything done.
WHY is this NOT DONE?....Well, if there is any money to "build infrastructures" against FLOODING, the powers that be will simply put that money in their POCKETS. The HELL with the people. It's a Filipino Culture. It's called GRAFT and CORRUPTION. It NEVER ends. Our American Declaration of Independence says that "All men are created equal". That's NOT the case in Manila. NOT EVER!!
I joined the U.S. NAVY in May of 1959.....JUST TO GET AWAY from that HELLHOLE. And GLAD THAT I DID. I didn't "look back" at my "dear old country of ORIGIN." There was actually NOTHING to "look back to".
Fred in Vegas, Sound like "Pro-Life" to me.....
This is a result of the widespread belief in Roman Catholicism and its' refusal to consider contraception regardless of the cost. This exists in countries where this outdated and socially destructive religion is predominate. Look at Mexico and the whole of Central/South America. It's a mess because of one thing: overpopulation. It not only makes life harder for everyone else, the environment in these areas suffer due to our complete lack of maintaining balance with nature. You can thank the pope and his minions for making the whole world a more crowded place.
Pilipinos like to eat and they like to puck....
Sound like "Pro-Life" to me!!!!
Women all over the world, including those in so-called Christian countries, bear the brunt of child bearing and rearing. Unlike their Muslim counterparts, however, Christian and infidel women have an otherwise independent life once back home from the maternity ward. In this sense, the Philippine culture passed Middle Eastern culture centuries ago and there is nothing wrong or stupid in helping them.
Backward cultures need dictators or kings to keep them stable, and pouring military aid to "democratic" rebels on the American credit card is not the way to throw money around.