Guttmacher News Release: Unsafe Abortion a Major Cause of Maternal Death in Ghana: Lack of Awareness of Abortion Law Is a Barrier to Better Health More than one in 10 pregnancy-related deaths in Ghana are the result of unsafe
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Ghana: Positive developments in abortion care: Can high death rates from unsafe abortion be reduced?
Lauren Taylor for The Statesman (Ghana):New faculties for Comprehensive Abortion Care and family planning will be built at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital and the University of Legon starting in October this year, the Head of department for Gynecology and Obstetrics at…
NY Times on Polygamy in New York
In Friday’s NY Times, Nina Bernstein writes in In Secret, Polygamy Follows Africans to N.Y.:She worked at the Red Lobster in Times Square and lived with her husband near Yankee Stadium. Yet one night, returning home from her job,…
Africa’s Exploited Child Laborers
A story like this (from Ghana, Africa) really chills you to the bone. But it reminds me of something that I once read in Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible about how in 1960’s Congo, Africa there are really just two…
