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By Carmel Crimmins MANILA (Reuters) - Minda is a masseuse with a difference. Her caress is used to abort fetuses. The 50-year-old grandmother has lost count of the number of pregnancies she has terminated in this largely Roman Catholic country where abortion is illegal and strictly taboo, but where about half a million women end their pregnancies every year. The backstreet abortions performed by healers like Minda may become more common as a United States government aid program plans to stop distributing

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