Minda, a hilot or traditional mid-wife who helps women in the slums of northern Manila to abort their pregnancies by pounding and gripping their lower abdomens, covers her face as she poses for a photo during a Reuters interview in Manila August 22, 2007. The backstreet abortions performed by healers like Minda may become more common as a United States government aid program plans to stop distributing contraceptives in the Philippines in 2008.