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By Okon Taye – Abuja Accessing abortion care is one of the problems women in Nigeria are facing which has led to maternal deaths. The Performance Monitoring for Action, PMA research has revealed that 10 per cent of women had no direct interaction with the abortion provider. This forces them to rely on partners, friends,
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Thousands of anti-abortion protesters, many of them mobilized by Catholic or evangelical groups, demonstrated on Saturday across Argentina against a government-backed new bill to legalize abortion. The largest group congregated in Buenos Aires before the Congress, which is expected in the coming week to begin debating legislation on a matter that has bitterly divided the
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Hundreds of people demonstrated again in Warsaw on Saturday against the tightening of Poland’s abortion law. The police asked the demonstrators to leave via loudspeaker and tried to surround them, the newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza reported. “We have a right to protest,” the crowd chanted. The participants carried banners with slogans such as: “Don’t tell me
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Brazil expanded its requirements Friday for rape victims seeking an abortion, including a rule that medical staff must tell the woman she can see the embryo or fetus via ultrasound. The new regulations published by far-right President Jair Bolsonaro’s health ministry also stipulate that the rape “must be reported to police” regardless of the woman’s
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By Simon Abah History always repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce — Karl Marx. THIS article was inspired by happenings in Louisiana, United States recently when a conservative Judge and Chief Justice, John Roberts, a Donald Trump nominee, sided with liberal judges and gave the decisive vote to preserve
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By Sola Ogundipe Marie Stopes International Organisation Nigeria, MSION has called for better access to modern contraceptives by Nigerian women as a way of checkmating the maternal mortality and morbidity brought on by unsafe abortion practices. The Director, Programme Operation, MSION, Dr. Emmanuel Ajah, affirmed that access to safe abortion and post-abortion care are central
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Worried over the huge investment the West is putting into the campaign on abortion as a guise to fighting overpopulation, guest speakers at the 2019 Catholic Men Organization, CMO, Lekki Deanery, Family Day celebration have called on Nigerians and the entire black race to protect their cultural heritage and value the family.
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One of R. Kelly’s former live-in girlfriends accused the singer on Sunday of forcing her to have two abortions inside his home and revealed other horrifying details of life with the disgraced R&B star. Joycelyn Savage, 24, on Saturday announced she had committed to posting daily on the paid membership platform Patreon about the 52-year-old
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None of the largest Churches in Northern Ireland have said they are prepared to carry out same-sex marriages.
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Same-sex marriage and abortion became legal in Northern Ireland at the stroke of midnight Tuesday. Abortions and same-sex marriages are now — for the first time — legal in Northern Ireland.
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