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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.

Until now, the national and provincial health departments have not been able to say where services are provided. Here's how we found them.

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.

In 2018, Bhekisisa revealed how the University of Pretoria student clinic was referring women to anti-abortion "pregnancy crisis centres". Now, a...

With terminations outlawed in Kenya, women and girls in its largest slum have to rely on expensive and unreliable under-the-counter pills,...

Zimbabwe’s tight abortion laws aren’t curbing demand, they’re driving them underground — and it’s about to get worse.

Are faith-based NGOs breaking the law when they refuse to give women information on where to terminate their pregnancies?

We teamed up with readers and translators to create some of the first graphics ever on abortion in all South Africa's official languages.

When religion trumps science in medicine, women's bodies and Constitutional rights may be caught in the crossfire.

The party cannot substantiate claims it made before Parliament in March, finds Africa Check.

Bhekisisa's new manual provides handy information on abortion data in South Africa, how procedures work and what the law says.

A horrifying experience at an illegal abortion provider led Gaopalelwe Phalaetsile to use social media to help women access safe abortion services

Everyone’s got an opinion on it but can we say the same about the facts?

Partners and families allegedly drugged women and in some cases even physically restrained them as doctors performed the procedure.

How we found the country's 'missing' abortion providers – and mapped contraception services too.

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.