The Next Battleground for Abortion Rights: Morocco

The Next Battleground for Abortion Rights: Morocco
The North African country is emerging as a key battleground on abortion, with an increasingly assertive movement seeking a break with conservative laws.

By Alice Morrison
Sept 23 2019

It’s midnight and moonless as a group of women gathers outside the Ministry of Health in Rabat, Morocco. They have assembled to wage war on Morocco’s abortion laws, which prohibit abortion in all cases except when the life of the mother is in immediate danger. Their weapon of choice? Sanitary towels covered in fake blood and slogans they affix to the walls of the ministry.

“No uterus — no opinion.”
“My body, my rules.”
“Abortion for all — women decide.”

Continued: https://www.ozy.com/fast-forward/the-next-battleground-for-abortion-rights-morocco/96108

Does Morocco’s strict abortion law need reform?

Does Morocco's strict abortion law need reform?
Doctors and activists demand action with over 25,000 unwanted babies born a year and as dangerous abortions continue.

by Ahmed El Amraoui & Maha Naami
Feb 25, 2018

Casablanca, Morocco - About two years ago, Zohra's boyfriend abandoned her when he discovered she was pregnant.

Suddenly, she was faced with an unwanted pregnancy.

In Morocco, abortion is criminalised and punishable by prison and fines, except in the cases of married women whose medical reports prove that the pregnancy carries a physical threat. Even in such cases, a husband's approval is mandatory.

Continued: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/morocco-strict-abortion-law-reform-180224224122230.html

Morocco: Clandestine abortion: Chafik Chraïbi regrets that law reform seems stillborn

Clandestine abortion: Chafik Chraïbi regrets that law reform seems stillborn
MOROCCO – Avortement clandestin: Chafik Chraïbi regrette un projet de loi mort-né
by International Campaign for Women's Right to Safe Abortion
Feb 6, 2018

Chafik Chraïbi, president of the Association marocaine de lutte contre l’avortement clandestin (AMLAC, Moroccan Association of Struggle against Clandestine Abortion), an obstetrician-gynaecologist who has been campaigning for many years for the government to extend access to safe abortion, seems to be losing hope that anything will ever change. But he refuses to stop his fight for the law reform that was agreed in June 2016 by a government appointed advisory committee. He has recently submitted a letter to the government as recent reforms have made little progress. He talks of looking back 5, 7, 10 years at documents in which those with responsibility in government have promised to change the situation to allow abortion on the grounds that have been agreed.

Continued: http://www.safeabortionwomensright.org/morocco-avortement-clandestin-chafik-chraibi-regrette-un-projet-de-loi-mort-ne/