Nigeria – Debate rages over ban on ‘safe’ abortion rights

By Chukwuma Muanya and Ijeoma Nwanosike
12 January 2023

In recent times there have been global uproar on merits and demerits of abortion, especially in the United States (U.S.) and Nigeria. The US, which used to be liberal on issues of abortion, recently banned the procedure in most states in the country. In Nigeria, an attempt by the Lagos State government to legalise the procedure was shut down, forcing Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to suspend the plan.

Until now, the levels of unintended pregnancy and unsafe abortion continue to be high in Nigeria due to low contraceptive prevalence. A substantial number of women have unintended pregnancies, many of which are resolved through clandestine abortion, despite the country’s restrictive abortion law.

Continued: https://guardian.ng/features/health/debate-rages-over-ban-on-safe-abortion-rights/

Nigeria – Unsafe Abortion: The Real Pandemic

November 25, 2021

Study Results by Performance Monitoring Action in 2014, with updated dissemination by Lagos State in March 2021, revealed that 6000 Nigerian women die from unsafe abortion-related complications every 12 months. Ayodeji Ake reports

“My mother must not know, she will develop high blood pressure” she said unhappily. Those were the words of Beauty, a 25-year-old damsel who resides in a small apartment with her mother and seven siblings in one of the rural areas in the federal capital territory, Abuja.

Continued: https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2021/11/25/unsafe-abortion-the-real-pandemic/

Abortion very common in Nigeria, despite legal restrictions – Group warns of implications

Published on October 29, 2020
By Joe Chukindi

The Performance Monitoring for Action group has raised alarm over the high rate of unsafe abortion in Nigeria, despite the legal restrictions around it.

The group through recent research revealed that Rivers and Anambra States top the charts with the highest number of abortions on a yearly basis.

Continued: https://dailypost.ng/2020/10/29/abortion-very-common-in-nigeria-despite-legal-restrictions-group-warns-of-implications/

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Nigeria – Desire for male child causing maternal morbidity, mortality

Desire for male child causing maternal morbidity, mortality

By Franka Osakwe
07 December 2019

In Nigeria, quest for male child has resulted in multiple un-spaced pregnancies.

This is one of the reasons why many women are dying during childbirth and lots more developing health problems. Male child preference has given rise to violence against women and girls.

According to EU-UN Spotlight Initiative, discrimination of the girl child is a crime and should be stopped.

Continued: https://guardian.ng/features/focus/desire-for-male-child-causing-maternal-morbidity-mortality/

Nigeria Rated High In Maternal Mortality, Safe Abortion

Nigeria Rated High In Maternal Mortality, Safe Abortion

By Sule Tahir
May 29, 2019

DUTSE – Recent World Health Survey has indicated that the country is among nations leading in the rate of maternal mortality ratio recording between 800 and 1,100 deaths per 1,000 live births on majority of Nigerian women.

Others include cases of contraception and safe abortion where it stated that approximately 142,000 women were being treated each year for complications from unsafe abortion.

Continued: https://www.independent.ng/nigeria-rated-high-in-maternal-mortality-safe-abortion/

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