Southern Africa: SADC NGOs Call for Safe & Legal Abortion

On 28 September, International Day of Safe Abortion, organisations across the Southern African Development Community (SADC) will join hands to demand safe abortion for women as part of a broader "voice and choice" campaign.

Gender Links, SAfAIDS and the Southern Africa Gender Protocol Alliance the will launch a campaign for access to services in South Africa and Mozambique (the only two countries in the region where abortion is legal) and decriminalisation of abortion in the 13 other countries in the region.

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