If you haven’t heard of Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng—known popularly as Dr T—you have somehow missed her ubiquitous presence on radio, TV, social media and numerous other platforms. She’s a medical doctor, sex expert and health activist. She’s a member of the South Africa Commission on Gender Equality and was recently appointed as United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health. Dr. Mofokeng is also the author of A Guide to Sexual Health and Pleasure. She took time from her busy schedule to field some questions from Ipas.
The Abortion is Health Care Everywhere Act, first introduced in the U.S. Congress on July 29, 2020 by Democratic Representative Jan Schakowsky of Illinois, would repeal the Helms Amendment—a racist policy that for nearly 50 years has denied access to abortion services to Black and brown women living in low- and middle-income countries.
Organized in four parts, this training manual aims to foster an advocacy perspective in health-care providers who are involved in delivering abortion and/or postabortion care. The manual will help providers recognize their personal power as advocates and identify different circumstances and means to advocate for comprehensive abortion care to the full limits of the law.
La objeción de conciencia (OC) es una figura jurÃdica excepcional. Es que, como principio general, el sistema jurÃdico demanda y aspira a la obediencia de las normas por todas las personas obligadas. La OC es este curioso caso donde el Estado permite a una persona exceptuarse de una obligación jurÃdica, debido a sus convicciones morales, siempre y cuando cumpla con los requisitos, procedimientos fijados y no dañe derechos de terceros. Surgió como una forma de proteger minorÃas religiosas o culturales, usualmente ignoradas por las previsiones de las leyes. Es asà que existe hoy una disonancia descomunal entre lo previsto por los textos y la práctica: la versión de la OC como acto reflexivo, sincero y humilde de una persona que hace parte de una minorÃa ha cedido frente a otros usos mucho más problemáticos y mucho menos éticos.
This booklet describes Ipas’s community work with vivid stories and narrative from Ipas staff and partners in the field—from Ethiopia to Mexico.
This document gives a summary analysis of primary and secondary data documenting unsafe abortion and the impact of the criminalization of abortion on women’s lives and health and on health services in 5 Brazilian states: Mato Grosso do Sul, Rio de Janeiro, BahÃa, Pernambuco, and ParaÃba.
This is a fact sheet highlighting women’s perspectives on abortion care as part of operations research in Zambia.
La stigmatisation de l’avortement joue un rôle central dans la marginalisation sociale, médicale et juridique des soins d’avortement à travers le monde et a des conséquences négatives sur la santé des femmes, des jeunes filles, des personnes trans et de leurs communautés. La stigmatisation de l’avortement est à l’origine du nombre élevé de décès et séquelles évitables dus à l’avortement non sécurisé à travers le monde.
Abortion stigma plays a critical role in the social, medical and legal marginalization of abortion care around the world—and it leads to negative health outcomes for women, girls, trans people and our communities. It drives the high number of preventable deaths and injuries around the world due to unsafe abortion.