US right-wing invades SA health services: blessed be the fruit!
US anti-abortion lobbyists are breaking SA law by actively motivating against legal abortions — and even counselling against contraception
Prominent health journalist Pontsho Pilane wrote a feature piece about pregnancy crisis centres in 2018 as an undercover patient. She experienced directional counselling in a clinic linked to Unisa in Pretoria. In her article she quotes Dr Jabulile Mavuso, who conducted research in the Eastern Cape and documented how pervasive the influence of US modelled pregnancy crisis centres are at three public health facilities in the Eastern Cape.
Pilane and Mavuso’s findings correlate with abortion being framed as “dangerous, immoral and irresponsible, and women were directed towards adoption and parenting instead”...
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