Nigeria – Ogun monarch backs reforming legalisation of safe abortion guidelines

June 7, 2026

The Oloruba of Oruba-Ota, Aworiland, and a Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Champion, Oba Wadudu Ajani Eniade Deinde (Ariwajoye I), has thrown his weight behind the legalisation of the Safe Termination of Pregnancy (SToP) bill, calling on the Ogun State House of Assembly to pass the bill into law.

Oba Deinde made the appeal during an advocacy visit to his palace by a women’s advocacy group, Trust and Support Foundation (TSF), led by its Executive Director of the group, Mrs. Victoria Madukwem, at Ota, Ogun State.

The monarch pleaded with the state Assembly to quickly pass the bill into law for the safety and benefits of women and young girls who were victims of rape, incest, noting that ‘SToP’ guidelines would give way for unsafe abortion being perpetrated by married women and girls of gender-based violence.

Continued: https://thenationonlineng.net/ogun-monarch-backs-reforming-legalisation-of-safe-abortion-guidelines/

07.06.2026

Oba Wadudu Ajani Eniade Deinde

Oloruba Of Oruba-Ota

Safe Termination of Pregnancy guideline

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Eswatini – Teen pregnancies reach 3 376 in nine months

by Sethembumenziyedwa Samuku
20 Apr 2026

Mbabane – A total of 3 376 teenage pregnancies were recorded between January and September 2025, highlighting adolescent vulnerability and raising concerns over unsafe abortion practices.

Continued: https://www.pressreader.com/eswatini/times-of-eswatini/20260420/281659671624782

20.04.2026

Abortion: the possibilities of progress

Editorial, The Lancet
Volume 407, Issue 10538, P1483, April 18, 2026

Women's bodily autonomy and health, particularly with regard to abortion, are under attack. The politicisation of women's bodies and choices is part of a wider attempt to roll back human rights and freedoms of women and marginalised groups. Political parties with regressive ideologies, rising across the world, are finding common cause with anti-gender religious groups. Transnational anti-gender movements have become professionalised and influence national and international agendas. Overseas aid has become a bargaining chip for abortion and gender rights, with dire consequences to sexual and reproductive health. Access to reproductive health information is being restricted by tech corporations, while misinformation is left to proliferate. These trends might prompt despair, but they should not obfuscate the incredible longer-term gains in abortion rights and connected health improvements of the past 60 years, nor the possibility of further ensuring legal, free, and safe abortion for all.

Continued: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(26)00753-1/fulltext

18.04.2026

Ghana – 200 adolescents receive SRH education, STI screening in Anloga

December 19, 2025
By Benard Worlali Awumee

Anyanui – A total of 187 adolescents from Anyanui, Atiteti, and Agbledomi in the Anloga District have benefited from sexual and reproductive health education and free screening for sexually transmitted infections.

The progamme aimed to improve awareness, promote positive behaviour and confirm STI-free health outcomes among participants.

Continued: https://gna.org.gh/2025/12/200-adolescents-receive-srh-education-sti-screening-in-anloga/

19.12.2025

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Western ‘family values’ rhetoric undermines ubuntu and reproductive justice for all in Africa

After commemorating International Human Rights Day on 10 December, a look at how Western-influenced right-wing movements are gaining traction in Africa and are using so-called traditional family values to undermine sexual and reproductive health rights and LGBTQIA+ rights.

By Sesona Buyeye and Duduetsang Mmeti
16 Dec 2025

Across the world, right-wing movements – often cloaked in the language of “moral and religious preservation” and “anti-wokeness” – are pushing back against progressive human rights advancing reproductive freedoms for women, girls and queer people.

Alarmingly, these movements are also gaining traction across parts of Africa, where significant strides have been made in embracing democracy, advancing constitutionalism and advocating non-racialism and reproductive freedoms in the post-colonial era.

Continued: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-12-16-western-family-values-rhetoric-undermineines-ubuntu-and-reproductive-justice-for/

Malawi: NGO Hails Malawi Government for Reducing Maternal Mortality

13 March 2025
Centre for Solutions Journalism (Blantyre)

Centre for Solutions Journalism (CSJ) has described government's post-abortion care programme as 'life-saving and extremely important,' in ensuring that no single woman or girl suffers or dies due to pregnancy related-causes.

CSJ Executive Director Brian Ligomeka said while access to abortion services remain restricted, it was important to appreciate the success of Malawi's post-abortion care unit.

"While our wish is that no single woman or girl should suffer or die from the consequences of unsafe abortions through provision of abortion services, we need to appreciate some of the current interventions of the government," he said recently, on the sidelines of the training sessions.

Continued: https://allafrica.com/stories/202503140033.html

13.03.2025

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Coalition for the Prevention of Unsafe Abortion

Dr Francis Makiya

Malawi

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Abortion access expert talks about the U.S. position in the global abortion landscape

Rollback of abortion rights post-Dobbs makes U.S. a global outlier.

by Rachel Crumpler
June 5, 2024

Since the Dobbs decision in June 2022, nearly half of states in the United States — including North Carolina — have curtailed access to abortion by implementing increased restrictions.

The significant rollback in abortion legality throughout much of the country puts the United States in sharp contrast to the global trend of loosening abortion laws and increasing protections for abortion rights.

Continued: https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2024/06/05/abortion-access-expert-talks-us-position-in-the-global-abortion-landscape/

Under Brazil’s Abortion Ban, ‘Lack of Information Kills’

Abortion stigma stemming from Brazilian law creates misinformation and delays in legal care, and retraumatizes survivors of sexual violence.

MAY 9, 2024
GARNET HENDERSON

On Easter Day in 2023, a woman named Tatiana went to buy Easter eggs for her two daughters. It was something her husband used to do, but he had recently died. So she went herself, after a late shift at a hospital on the outskirts of São Paulo, where she works as a cleaner.

As she left the grocery store near her home, a man armed with a gun drove up and grabbed Tatiana. He threw her into his car and raped her, strangling her and leaving bruises all over her body.

Continued: https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2024/05/09/under-brazils-abortion-ban-lack-of-information-kills/

Abortion Pills Go Global

Regardless of the law, women can now access their own safe and effective abortion procedures in the form of these pills.

November 10, 2023

After Ohio’s recent vote to enshrine the right to have an abortion into the state’s constitution, host Robert Scheer dives deeper into one of the underappreciated and underreported aspects of the fight for abortion rights on this episode of the Scheer Intelligence podcast.

Sydney Calkin, a senior lecturer in the School of Geography at Queen Mary University of London, discusses her newest book, “Abortion Pills Go Global: Reproductive Freedom Across Borders,” and breaks down the myths and misconceptions about one of the biggest tools for bringing women’s reproductive rights to the forefront.

Continued: https://scheerpost.com/2023/11/10/abortion-pills-go-global/

USA – Lies about abortion have dictated health policy

By Tamara Kay and Susan Ostermann, Chicago Tribune
Dec 05, 2022

Since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that abortion policy should be decided at the state level, a number of high-profile abortion issues have appeared on state ballots. In each of these cases — even in conservative states — voters have chosen to support abortion rights. With voters increasingly being asked to make abortion policy, it is critical that they understand the facts in order to make informed decisions.

During the last 50 years, lies and intentional misinformation have dictated abortion health policy in the U.S. Abortion has been demonized and characterized by utter falsities; it has gone under the radar for far too long.

Continued: https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-abortion-misinformation-health-policy-trap-laws-20221205-ildvxeb66bblfc2qml3xcvsfu4-story.html