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Abortion has been legal for more than 20 years in SA but many people still don't know when or where they can get safe terminations. These can help.
#SizaMap: Find a safe, legal abortion near you with this list of designated providers
Until now, the national and provincial health departments have not been able to say where services are provided. Here's how we found them.
Pills and phone calls: How COVID restrictions forced us to conduct abortions telephonically
COVID-19 forced many people’s jobs online – even for doctors who provide abortions. Read what Marie Stopes learned when they helped nearly 50 patients terminate pregnancies over the phone.
How US anti-abortion groups are funding South Africa’s ‘pregnancy crisis centres’
In 2018, Bhekisisa revealed how the University of Pretoria student clinic was referring women to anti-abortion "pregnancy crisis centres". Now, a...
“People have normalised rape… but no one talks about abortion. When I do, the...
With terminations outlawed in Kenya, women and girls in its largest slum have to rely on expensive and unreliable under-the-counter pills,...
Inside the illegal abortion market: ‘I nearly touched hell’
Zimbabwe’s tight abortion laws aren’t curbing demand, they’re driving them underground — and it’s about to get worse.
Pregnant? Need an abortion? Here’s where not to go
Are faith-based NGOs breaking the law when they refuse to give women information on where to terminate their pregnancies?
How readers like you are helping flip the script on illegal abortion providers.
We teamed up with readers and translators to create some of the first graphics ever on abortion in all South Africa's official languages.
Unconscionable: Health workers’ right to refuse abortions vs women’s right to choose
When religion trumps science in medicine, women's bodies and Constitutional rights may be caught in the crossfire.
How the ACDP peddled unproven fact in its bid to tighten SA’s abortion laws
The party cannot substantiate claims it made before Parliament in March, finds Africa Check.
Abortion in South Africa: A reporting guide for journalists
Bhekisisa's new manual provides handy information on abortion data in South Africa, how procedures work and what the law says.
Slice of Life: ‘I shared my abortion experience on Facebook and it went viral’
A horrifying experience at an illegal abortion provider led Gaopalelwe Phalaetsile to use social media to help women access safe abortion services
13 things that will change the way you look at abortion
Everyone’s got an opinion on it but can we say the same about the facts?
Forced abortions: A new frontier in the war on women’s bodies?
Partners and families allegedly drugged women and in some cases even physically restrained them as doctors performed the procedure.
When there was no list of free abortion clinics, we made our own. Here’s...
How we found the country's 'missing' abortion providers – and mapped contraception services too.
‘They made me feel like a murderer’: Stigma endangers women seeking legal abortions
Bontle Mabe turned to a loan shark to fund her abortion after she was turned away for five days in a row at her local clinic.