Document - CENTRE FOR SOLUTIONS JOURNALISM STATEMENT RELEASED ON INTERNATIONAL SAFE ABORTION DAY - SEPTEMBER 28, 2024
CENTRE FOR SOLUTIONS JOURNALISM STATEMENT RELEASED ON INTERNATIONAL SAFE ABORTION DAY - SEPTEMBER 28, 2024
As seen by the rising number of women seeking post-abortion care in government health facilities, the current law has only succeeded in pushing over 141,000 women and girls seeking abortions in Malawi to herbalists, witchdoctors, and certain traditional birth attendants where they suffer grave complications.
The solution to the problem of maternal mortality and morbidity caused by unsafe abortion is well-known and is articulated in Law Commission Report No Report No 29 titled Report of the Law Commission on the Review of the Law on Abortion published in the Malawi Government Gazette of 15th March 2016. The solution is to enact the proposed Termination of Pregnancy Bill.
We commend the Malawi Government that it has started the fulfilment of the Maputo Protocol by enacting the Gender Equality Act and by drafting the Termination of Pregnancy Bill which currently is in the Report of the Law Commission on the Review of the Law on Abortion, published in the Government Gazette in 2016.
It is a betrayal of women and girls who suffer from adverse health and psycho-social effects from unplanned pregnancies that occur under various circumstances, including rape and incest. The delay in enacting a new law for safe abortion as recommended by the Law Commission, at least within the standards set by the Maputo Protocol is a negation of Malawi's obligations under international law.
* the National Assembly to allocate adequate resources to support the prevention of unsafe abortion by scaling up the provision of contraceptives and to continue scaling up postabortion care services.
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