The hospital is the Dr Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital in
Manila which serves a slum named Tondo, and is built on a rubbish dump. 300 mothers arrive at the hospital everyday and have to also share a delivery room with at least five other birthing women.
One of the women featured in the documentary is having her 7th child. I don't want to judge these women's choices, who I understand are mostly Roman Catholics and so are not permitted by their church to use contraception. But I wonder if there aren't other natural means to plan your family so that you're not overwhelmed or sink deeper into poverty?
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