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Jackson Women's Health Organization, which impacted the abortion debate in Africa. Abortion providers faced an increase in threats. American groups provided funding for anti-abortion activists. [6] Anti-abortion groups in Kenya challenged the country's recent ruling that abortion is a constitutional right, which had cited Roe v. Wade.
The book traces the struggle for abortion rights from the 1960s to the end of apartheid in South Africa. It stresses the intersection of class and race in women's access to safe abortion services, emphasizes the lingering challenges, [1] highlights the lack of a widespread feminist movement during this period and closely examines the impact of a 1972 case involving a medical abortionist named ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "Abortion in Africa" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 ...
When Efua, a 25-year-old fashion designer and single mother in Ghana, became pregnant last year, she sought an abortion at a health clinic but worried the procedure might be illegal.
A likely illegal abortion flyer in South Africa The health risks of abortion depend principally on how, and under what conditions, the procedure is performed. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines unsafe abortions as those performed by unskilled individuals, with hazardous equipment, or in unsanitary facilities. [ 93 ]
Abortion is illegal in Tanzania except to preserve the life of the mother. Under the Tanzanian penal code, health practitioners who perform illegal abortions may receive sentences of up to 14 years in prison, while those who procure abortions for themselves may be sentenced to up to seven years in prison.
The risk of unplanned pregnancies, unsafe abortions and related deaths increased in many of the affected countries, according to the U.S.-based Guttmacher Institute, which supports abortion rights.
Abortion in Namibia is restricted under the Abortion and Sterilisation Act of South Africa (1975), [1] which Namibia inherited at the time of Independence from South Africa in March 1990. The act only allows for the termination of a pregnancy in cases of serious threat to the maternal or fetal health or when the pregnancy is a result of rape or ...