Many states continue to control women’s bodies through criminalisation of their sexual and reproductive conduct and decisions. We cannot talk about women’s rights without a focus on women’s sexual and reproductive rights, at the centre of which is women’s agency to make choices about their own bodies, including if and when to have children.
It starts with information. Studies and anecdotal evidence show that there is lack of knowledge among women and girls that they can access legal abortion services, which means they are more likely to seek unsafe abortions. Amnesty International recently learned from women in Amsterdam in Mpumalanga that no information is provided on abortion services in their clinic.
those seeking abortions have to travel 46 km to the nearest hospital, which has one provider, resulting in long waiting times and the risk of being denied an abortion when the procedure is delayed beyond the gestational limits under the CTOPA.
When will men also be afforded the right to choose to be a parent after sex?
Where?! Send location?!