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‘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.
Abortion: Government to get tougher on doctors with moral objections
Draft guidelines will look to balance a doctor or nurse's right recuse themselves from performing abortions with a person's right to choose.
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.Bhekisisa has created #SizaMap, South Africa's first searchable map of free abortion providers....
Loophole could protect South African organisations from US gag rule on abortions
Experts say confusion over the rights of local healthcare workers to provide the service while receiving US funds only benefits Trump administration.
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.
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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.
Condoms at school? Yes, says a new education policy
Parents and staff can no longer keep contraception out of schools in the case of children 12 years and older.
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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.
How to spot an illegal abortion
Here are three ways to tell whether or not you might be going for an abortion at an illegitimate practitioner.
How Trump’s global ‘gag rule’ policy threatens health clinics
Campaigners warn the reinstatement of a policy cutting aid to organisations that offer abortion services will devastate family planning.
More married women than singles have abortions
Nearly 90% of terminations of pregnancies are performed in developing countries such as South Africa and Nigeria.