MANILA: The government warned yesterday women who are selling their babies for profit, saying their acts violate the adoption law and should be punished.
Corazon Soliman, Secretary for Philippine Department of Social Welfare and Development, issued the warning following reports of children being sold by their mothers who could not raise them.
“We should be alarmed by reports of babies being sold. This is also a form of birth simulation which evades the legal adoption process thereby violating RA 8552 (Domestic Adoption Act of 1998),” she said.
According to Soliman, any person who tampers the birth registration of a child or any physician, nurse, or health personnel who collaborate in such an illegal act are guilty of birth simulation.
The Philippine star
