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Law adds fuel to race-abortion fire
Legislation that would outlaw sex, race and colour-based abortions in Georgia, in the United...
Legislation that would outlaw sex, race and colour-based abortions in Georgia, in the United States, has added further fuel to a dispute over so-called "race-targeted" terminations.
The Bill, the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act, would see equality law applied to terminations, meaning that, if enacted, it would be illegal for family planning clinics to knowingly solicit, perform or accept funding for race or sex-based abortions.
It comes after a pro-life organisation, the Radiance Foundation, claimed that black women were having too many abortions, and alleged that they were being deliberately targeted in an effort to control the African-American population.
The foundation recently launched an advertising campaign featuring a black child accompanied by the strap-line: "Black Children Are An Endangered Species."
Responding to the advertisements, Loretta Ross, the national coordinator of SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, said: "The wording of the campaign is offensive ... to many of us, it compares our children to exotic animals. Our children are not animals."
The Guttmacher Institute estimates that 37% of 1.2 million abortions carried out in 2005 were on black women. African-Americans make up around 13% of the US population.
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Street abortion drugs targeted
An African health department has been called upon to investigate the use of drugs being sold on...
An African health department has been called upon to investigate the use of drugs being sold on the street to terminate pregnancies.
Following a report that showed the drug Misoprostol, which induces early labour, was being sold on the streets of Soweto, the African National Congress (ANC) has taken action.
The report said that women were able to get the drug for prices ranging between R200 and R750, depending on how advanced their pregnancy was.
The Medical Control Council said it was a criminal offence to be in possession of the drug, which can only be obtained from pharmacies.
In a statement, the ANC said: "The health department investigation should be prompt and effective as the street peddlers continue to do damage and take advantage of desperate and vulnerable people.
"We equally do not understand why people rush to street peddlers because abortion is legal in South Africa."
It also stressed concern that people selling the drug on the streets were working in conjunction with staff from Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital.
"These street peddlers are dangers to society. Those under the employ of the hospital should face the full might of the law," it said.
Health department spokesperson Mandla Sidu could not immediately be reached for comment.
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