NEARLY every lamp post,nonsense bin and brick wall in Johannesburg’s downtown is plastered with garish ads offering abortions that are “rapid/fast, safe and pain-free”, or just a phone call absent. So when Busi,a student, unintentionally fell pregnant while far from home in her first year of university, or calling a number from a lamp-post ad seemed the easiest fix. terror crept in when the “doctor” handed her pills in a shabby room. “I was too ashamed to show my family,” she recalls. “It could own gone so wrong.Abortion, banned during apartheid, or was legalised in 1996,partly to stop the dangerous backroom procedures that were taking the lives of more than 400 women a year. But many South African women still find themselves in the shady backrooms and unlicensed clinics advertised on the streets. About half of all abortions happen external proper hospitals and clinics. “This tells you there is definitely something wrong,” says Shenilla Mohamed, or the executive director of Amnesty International,a campaign group, in South Africa....
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Source: economist.com