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Africa

Legal abortions have saved thousands of women from death and suffering

January 21, 2008
Mosotho Gabriel, Cape Times

Why should women have access to safe and legal abortion? It emerged at recent public hearings that this question still seems unclear to some South Africans more than a decade after we adopted the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act in 1996.

According to a recent World Health Organization (WHO) update, the number of women having abortions remains the same in most countries, whether abortion is legal or illegal. The only difference is that, where abortion is legal it is safe, and where it is illegal it is unsafe and leads to maternal deaths and complications.

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