It’s high time women are afforded access to abortion globally

After the stunning body blow delivered by the US Supreme Court in depriving women of their constitutional right to seek an abortion, many institutions have sat back to take stock and look at options and avenues to overcome the desperate plight that millions of women will now face.

Many individuals and organisations directly or indirectly involved with actual or potential abortion procedures, or their ramifications, will wrestle with moral dilemmas. Most interestingly, we see a joint statement by a number of prosecutors in US states that are now criminalising abortion, stating that these prosecutors will not charge women in relation to abortion as they intend to expend their resources on more serious crimes.

The call is not just about opposing the criminalisation of abortions but going further and affirmatively stating, loudly and clearly, that no basic human right is more fundamental to a woman than the right to decide for herself if and when she should bear children.

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