Ugandan activists decry restrictive abortion laws

Moses Odongo, Director of SAAF grantee partner organisation Family Medical Point is one of the Ugandan activists quoted in this article in Al Jazeera.

Moses recounts the day he heard that his 14 year old cousin had died from unsafe abortion:

“This is a problem we are all responsible for,” he said. “We have let down this girl. We have not provided [young] people with sex education … We do not allow anyone to even mention the word abortion.”

He adds that:

“There are lots of graves caused by unsafe abortion. It’s needless death. It’s preventable.”