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/