1977 Termination of Pregnancy Act

By Vanessa Gonye
Nov. 14, 2023

HEALTH experts have called for unsafe abortion to be considered a public health concern by amending laws on abortion. Zimbabwe records an estimated 80 000 unsafe abortions annually.

Speaking to NewsDay, My Age Zimbabwe director Onward Gibson said unsafe abortions were contributing to maternal deaths, infertility, among other health threats. “There is urgent need to improve access to comprehensive reproductive health services, including contraception, family planning, and comprehensive sexuality education, which can help reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and subsequently lower the demand for abortions,” he said.

Continued: https://www.newsday.co.zw/theindependent/local-news/article/200019498/amend-abortion-laws-experts

Inside the illegal abortion market: 'I nearly touched hell'
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29 Jan 2019
Wendy Muperi

Tapiwa Chiwenga was two months pregnant when she slipped the pink pills inside herself, lay down on her bed, and prayed they would do their job.

They had to.

She was 22. Her boyfriend, a foreign student in Zimbabwe on a scholarship, loved her fiercely. But he was broke. So was she. She lived with her cousin and didn’t have a job. A baby simply was not in the cards.

Continued: https://bhekisisa.org/article/2019-01-29-00-illegal-abortions-zimbabwe-shut-down-what-is-the-gag-rules-impact-contraception

1977 Termination of Pregnancy Act

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