abortion in nigeria

A Public Health Scientist, Suzanne Bell on Thursday said the abortion rate by women of reproductive age in Nigeria has risen between 1.8 and 2.7 million. Mrs Bell, who made the disclosure at a dissemination exercise of the Performance Monitoring and Accountability 2020 (PMA 2020) … Read...

In a country like Nigeria, where pregnancy out of wedlock, especially among young people could lead to ostracizing, and a host of other punishments. It is no surprise that young people, especially young girls have taken to various means to perform abortions. In Nigeria, abortion is illegal...