10/18/2023
DAVID A. YATES
The West Point Women for Health and Development Organization (WPWHDO) has sensitized young women and girls about unsafe abortion and the harmful practices of female genital mutilation (FGM) in the country.
Unsafe abortion is a major contributor to Liberia’s “very high rate of maternal mortality,” according to a 2020 report by the World Health Organization. It was one of just eight African countries that ranked that high.
Continued: https://www.liberianobserver.com/liberia-west-point-women-sensitized-girls-unsafe-abortion-fgm