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Should you really be talking to your 10-year-old child about sex?
By the age of 10, children’s ideas about gender, relationships and violence are largely set in stone.
No fetus scan, no abortion. Really?
A draft bill is likely to virtually remove women’s access to safe abortions.
Sex, shrugs and policy holes: Why partially decriminalising sex work isn’t enough
After almost two decades, the South African Law Reform Commission chose fiction over facts.
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‘It didn’t take long for [the fetus] to come out. There was a human-like...
Left with little choice, many women turn to illegal abortionists to terminate their pregnancies.
Less than 7% of health facilities nationwide offer abortions – Amnesty International
In some provinces, safe, free abortions may only be provided at about 260 public facilities.
More married women than singles have abortions
Nearly 90% of terminations of pregnancies are performed in developing countries such as South Africa and Nigeria.
Will rape survivors finally be able to have legal abortions?
Unsafe terminations in Malawi may be curbed after a new law is enacted, but it’s just the first step
Medical conscientious objectors who scupper abortions deny women their rights
Conscientious objectors who refuse to perform abortions or related services for moral reasons may have become a law unto themselves.
Cruel dilemma: To terminate or not to terminate
The joy of motherhood is killed by a moral and ethical dilemma when doctors advise termination of a pregnancy.
Five African states help women prevent pregnancy right after birth
Postpartum or after birth family planning can reduce one in three maternal deaths, one in 10 infant deaths and one in five child deaths.
Youth-friendly sexual health clinics put Ugandans at ease
Clinics dedicated to young people are ideal but the poor nation struggles to provide at least a basic service for those who can't access them.
Young women told: ‘If a man touches you, you’ll get pregnant’
Unintended pregnancies and abortions in Nigeria could be reduced if myths are dispelled and young women have the right information.
People need to know more about abortion and contraception
A number of fallacious assumptions undermine the effectiveness of measures to prevent or terminate a pregnancy, writes Catriona Macleod.
Moral crusade condemns SA women to die
Backstreet abortion ‘doctors’ profit from stigma as patients are stripped of their dignity – and lives.