Ninotchka Rosca
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Ninotchka Rosca is an author, journalist and founder of GABRIELA Network (AF3IRM), the preeminent Filipina-American women’s rights organization. She has written two novels, State of War and Twice Blessed; two short story collections, Bitter Country and Monsoon Country; and two non-fiction books, The Fall of Marcos and Jose Maria Sison: At Home in the World—Portrait of a Revolutionary. Her short stories have been included in several anthologies. Rosca is a board member of The Sisterhood Is Global Institute.

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Super Bowl Sunday: What You Won't See

Posted February 5, 2010 | 13:02:23 (EST)

Her eighth child, positive for Down syndrome; the doctor at the free maternity clinic delivers the verdict with detachment. She hears there is neither remedy nor recourse. Tough luck. There's little by way of care in the Philippines for those not fully equipped for living. Tough luck. Abortion is criminalized....

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