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International Team Explores the Stigma Surrounding Abortion
An international team of researchers says abortion stigma is under-researched, under theorized and over emphasized in one category: women who’ve had abortions. As a result, they’re launching a new direction into research that explores the...
10 Bogus Doctors Arrested for Practicing Backstreet Abortions
Efforts to get rid of bogus doctors and illegal abortions within the eThekwini Municipality has started to bear fruit, with 10 so-called doctors being arrested for practicing backstreet abortions.
Young Doctors Reach Out to South Africa’s Teen Girls
In support of Pregnancy Awareness week, the Junior Doctors Association of South Africa (JUDASA) has called on all young female doctors to take part in the campaign by reaching out to young girls in schools. How People Arrived Here: africateen, pregnancy...
North West Health MEC Urges Women to Use Legal Abortion Sites
North West Health MEC Dr Magome Masike has urged women to use legal and designated abortion sites for the sake of their own health. Since the implementation of the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act no 92 of 1996, the province has designated 18 hospitals...
National Study: Abortion Does Not Cause Depression Or Low Self-esteem in Adolescents
A new study has determined that teenagers who have abortions are no more likely to become depressed or have low self-esteem than their peers whose pregnancies do not end in abortion. Science Brief thanks to EurekAlert. Read more here: National study:...
Family Planning At the Center of the UK’s Approach to Women’s Health in Developing Countries
Secretary of State for International Development, Andrew Mitchell, has announced that the United Kingdom (UK) Government is to put family planning at the heart of its approach to women’s health in the developing world in an attempt to reduce the persistently...
GHANA: Ignorance on Abortion Law Means Death
Unsafe abortions account for more than one in 10 women who die in pregnancy in Ghana, according to new research by the US-based Guttmacher Institute, with ignorance of the law and inadequate facilities partly to blame, say health authorities.
Nigerian Catholics Hold Anti-abortion Liberalization Rally
Many Nigerian Catholics joined a peaceful rally in Lagos against the liberalization of the abortion law, an action organized by the Order of the Knight of Muluba (KSM) of the Lagos Metropolitan Council. Demonstrators who displayed placards with anti-abortion...
