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Most women in Africa live in countries with restrictive laws. Most countries in Africa are parties to the African Union's Maputo Protocol, the only international treaty that defines a right to abortion. Sub-Saharan Africa is the world region with the highest rates of unsafe abortions and abortion mortality. Most abortions in the region are unsafe.
Gabon has one of the highest rates of abortion in Sub-Saharan Africa. Abortion was banned in Gabon under French colonial law, and later by a total ban in 1969. In the 1990s and 2000s, public concerns arose about unsafe abortions and teenage pregnancy, and certain therapeutic abortions were made legal.
In Mauritius, abortion is only legal in the cases of risk to life, risk to physical or mental health, risk of fetal impairment, pregnancy from rape, or pregnancy of a minor. Legal abortions must be approved by three physicians or by a police report, and they must be approved by an adult if performed on a minor.
“Organizations thus have to evaluate what is most important: the non-abortion work they will still be able to do or the principle of pro-choice,” read part of the 2019 assessment report.
Ethiopia is the second most populated country in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). A central issue concerning the safety of its population is the access to health care including abortion services. Historically, access to abortion in Sub-Saharan Africa has created controversy amongst some members of the public and its healthcare professionals, due to ...
Compounded with the disrupted aid services for contraception, maternal healthcare, and broader health, the implications are dangerous for women and society in sub-Saharan Africa and worldwide ...
Justice Minister Guilhermina Prata recently presented legislation with the intent to help decrease the number of illegal abortions done in Angola. In the region of Sub-Sahara Africa, the majority, if not all, of illegal abortions are unsafe. It is believed that 40 percent of women who have an illegal abortion die due to complications of the ...
Because the delay in seeking care following safe or unsafe abortion is a cause for higher complications post abortion, there have been pushes to establish more access to family planning and post abortion care in Kenya. [16] Post abortion care tends to refer to emergency medical treatment, but also incorporates family planning for the patient. [13]