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In the context of Nigeria’s restrictive abortion laws, promoting access to medication abortion drugs is a life saver.
Girls and young women do not search for medical safety when seeking abortion care. They prioritise “social safety” to avoid prosecution and social stigma. Can self-care be a solution?
Abortions are more often self-induced by women with drugs and dangerous substances in Nigeria due to restrictive abortion laws.
25 states aren’t expected to ban abortion if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. But limits on abortion in these places, too, make it an uncertain refuge for people seeking abortions elsewhere.
The changes that society needs, such as preventing adolescent pregnancies, will not happen until researchers can use their findings to influence policy change.
Kenya spends millions treating women who have complications after unsafe abortions.
New research on Latin America’s four recent female presidents disproves the idea that merely putting a woman in power will improve gender equality.
Contraception gives women the choice of how many children to have and when to have them. This empowers them - but millions of women in Kenya do not have this choice.
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