Short answer. Yes. Intentional abortion is punished under the Revised Penal Code, and liability is not limited to the woman. Any person who intentionally causes an abortion may be charged, with the penalty rising sharply where violence was used or where the woman did not consent.
What the law says
Any person who shall intentionally cause an abortion shall suffer
Revised Penal Code, Article 256 — Intentional Abortion. Read the full provision →
Three situations, three different penalties
The article grades the offence by how the abortion was brought about. Where the offender used violence upon the person of the pregnant woman, the penalty is reclusion temporal — the heaviest of the three. Where no violence was used but the offender acted without the consent of the woman, the penalty is prision mayor. Where the woman consented, the penalty drops to prision correccional in its medium and maximum periods. The pattern is deliberate: the law treats an abortion forced on a woman as a far graver wrong than one she agreed to, because it is also an assault on her.
Who can be charged
The wording is "any person", so the reach is wide. A partner or relative who administers something or applies force, a person who performs the procedure, and anyone who takes part in causing the abortion can be within it. The woman who consents is separately dealt with by the Code, as are physicians, midwives and pharmacists who lend their skill or dispense abortives, who face additional professional consequences on top of the criminal penalty. A person who causes an abortion without intending to — through violence inflicted for some other reason, for instance — is answerable under a different provision on unintentional abortion, which carries a lighter penalty.
What the prosecution has to establish
Three elements sit at the centre of a charge: that the woman was pregnant, that the foetus died or was expelled before viability as a result of what the accused did, and that the accused acted intentionally. Each is a real hurdle. Pregnancy and the causal link between the accused's act and the loss are medical questions, usually turning on records, examination and expert testimony. Intent has to be inferred from conduct. A miscarriage that follows illness, accident or an underlying condition is not a crime, and a genuine therapeutic intervention undertaken to save the mother's life stands on entirely different footing from what this article punishes.
The wider legal position, and getting help
These provisions remain in force; the Philippines has not decriminalised abortion, and the reproductive health legislation of 2012 (RA 10354) did not change that. What that law does guarantee is that a woman suffering complications from an abortion, or from a miscarriage, is entitled to humane and non-judgmental post-abortion care, and health workers may not withhold it. That matters because fear of prosecution keeps people away from treatment they urgently need. If you are being investigated, or have been threatened with a complaint, say nothing to investigators before you have counsel, and seek medical attention regardless — this page is general legal information, not advice on your situation.