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YEAR: 1995

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Empowering women: analyses. Legal and policy barriers to family planning.

AUTHORS

Turkson R

SOURCE

AFRICA LINK. 1995 Apr;:6-8.

ABSTRACT

This article concerns the legal and policy barriers to family planning in Swaziland and Burkina Faso. In Swaziland,

women's rights to education and employment are still ill defined or non-existent with many other laws negating

advancements in education and employment. Family law is one area that remains hostile to changes meant to

empower women. This is the very area in which the incapacity of women to make independent choices and

meaningful decisions has serious consequences for their ability to control their fertility. Moreover, abortion has not

been formally addressed as a public health issue despite the increasing number of women seeking backstreet

abortions. In general, access to family planning services is restricted by both existing laws and by lack of laws to

guide practice. Meanwhile, the ratification of the Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination

Against Women in Burkina Faso, resulted to several measures that are meant to improve the status of women.

However, abortion in Burkina Faso is rather restrictive; the only exception to the prohibition against abortion is to save

the life of the mother. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT2T 2587-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Empowering women: analyses. Legal and policy barriers to

family planning.", is(are) Turkson R. The source of this article is "AFRICA LINK. 1995 Apr;:6-8.". This article was

published in 1995 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT2T 2587-06. All rights reserved with

PubHealth.info) PIN: 7587

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