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How middle-aged women are pushing up the abortion rate!

How middle-aged women are pushing up the abortion rate!

By Bunmi Sofola IT would be easy to assume that it is young irresponsible girls who are most likely to opt for abortion, but it is, in fact, middle-aged women who are pushing up the abortion rate.  Emilia was a divorced mother of three and just turned 40, when she met Chuka, a widower at […]
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New South Wales becomes Australia’s last state to legalise abortion

New South Wales becomes Australia’s last state to legalise abortion

The local parliament in New South Wales (NSW), Australia’s most populous state, has passed laws decriminalizing abortion, becoming the last jurisdiction in the country to do so. The Abortion Law Reform Act 2019 passed the state’s lower house by 26 votes to 14 on Wednesday after dozens of proposed amendments prompted emotional marathon debates, heated clashes and […]

Indonesians protest over sex before marriage bill

Indonesians protest over sex before marriage bill

Police have fired tear gas and water cannons at protesters demonstrating outside the Indonesian parliament over a proposed new criminal code that would ban sex before marriage. Protests against the bill also took place in other cities in the country. The bill according to BBC report would outlaw most abortions and make insulting the president […]

Doctor mistakenly performed abortion on wrong woman

Doctor mistakenly performed abortion on wrong woman

Police have launched an investigation in South Korea after a doctor performed an abortion by mistake. On August 7, a pregnant patient with a 6-week-old foetus had gone to a clinic in district of Gangseo, in the country’s capital Seoul, according to the Gangseo police. At the clinic, a mix-up in medical charts and failure […]