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EC case study: How poor service in the public sector is pushing women to ‘backstreet’ abortion

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In April 2022, *Grace Langa went to Frontier Hospital in Queenstown in the Eastern Cape for an abortion. “At first I went to the hospital on a Monday. I was told that they only perform abortions on Wednesdays. “I went…

Ndivhuwo Mukwevho
October 18, 2023
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Abortion services a phone call away, from the comfort of your home

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The Covid-19 lockdown warranted self-administered abortions, with women unable to reach a clinic. It also brought home the advantages of this more autonomous abortion method.

Nelisiwe Msomi
October 7, 2020

Abortion service providers face judgment from colleagues

Our Health

Unbearable working conditions for abortion service providers at clinics have led to many leaving - will new guidelines on termination of pregnancy services change this?

Masutane
August 15, 2019

Activists demand abortion services in clinics

Our Health

Meanwhile, Limpopo health department says it doesn't have the resources to upgrade its facilities because termination ‘not an everyday thing’.

Mogale Mojela
May 28, 2019

Dumped foetus highlights backstreet abortions

Our Health

NORTHERN CAPE - The recent discovery of a foetus dumped in a bin by a Gamagara municipal workers has highlighted the issue of young women failing to access safe abortions at their local clinics and instead choosing other harmful solutions.

mpholekgetho
August 14, 2018

Abortion access in SA: A ‘disaster’

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A new report highlights the importance of abortion access to women's rights but the country is failing to fully implement its progressive termination of pregnancy laws.

Amy Green
May 11, 2018

Abortion: the legal service mostly illegally performed

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Healthworkers who refuse to help women who want abortions are driving them into the arms of illegal abortionists who perform over half of the country’s procedures. But activists believe it is time to stop stigmatizing this legal service.

GillGifford
January 29, 2018

Abortion: Health workers undermining women’s rights

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The refusal of large numbers of healthworkers to perform abortions is driving women to seek unsafe backstreet procedures. Professor EDDIE MHLANGA calls on medical schools to address students’ bias against abortion and teach them how to remedy botched procedures

Eddie Mhlanga
August 14, 2017

Rape pregnant teen on suicide watch

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A 17 year-old teenager has been on suicide watch after attempting to abort her 16-week pregnancy – believe to be the result of rape.

cynthiamaseko
April 4, 2017

US Gag Rule to cause more abortion-related deaths

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The US Gag Rule, reintroduced in January, is likely to mean that many more women in the most vulnerable parts of the world, will continue to die from unsafe abortions.

Amy Green
March 20, 2017

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