Barriers & Solutions
In August 2024, the SRJC launched our Access to Abortion research. This research examines providers’ perspectives, barriers to services and solutions to strengthening abortion services. The research also imparts knowledge that can be used to improve services overall.
Barriers & Solutions
In August 2024, the SRJC launched our Access to Abortion research. This research examines providers’ perspectives, barriers to services and solutions to strengthening abortion services. The research also imparts knowledge that can be used to improve services overall.
Abortion Provider Appreciation Day 2021
On Abortion Provider Appreciation Day, 10 March 2021, the SRJC, in collaboration with its members, hosted a webinar to celebrate and honour the work of our abortion providers across the country. Key issues that emerged during the event included the extent to which abortion providers still face stigma in their places of work, from their […]
Challenging stigma in the workplace – CTOP services as comprehensive nursing care
Authored by Christy Alves Nascimento (SRJC) and Makwena Cecilia Lamola (MSF) This piece of writing is a collaboration between Médecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) Southern Africa and the Sexual and Reproductive Justice Coalition (SRJC). Abortion Provider Appreciation Day (10 March) is one of the most important dates on the sexual and reproductive justice calendar globally. This […]
Do we need the law to provide for a regular clinical medical procedure such as abortion?
Director of SRJC, Marion Stevens, gives an overview of the state of abortion rights in South Africa, and brings into question whether SA abortion law has any relevance given current practices. Abortion has always been legal in South Africa, which may surprise many people. The colonial government introduced Roman Dutch law which allowed abortions to […]
Abortion Provider Appreciation Day 2020
Hearings to continue despite two charges being dropped against anti-abortion doctor
Hearings to continue despite two charges being dropped against anti-abortion doctor Cape Town – The Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) has set aside two of the four charges against anti-abortion doctor Jacques de Vos. The first of the charges that was dropped by HPCSA’s professional conduct committee, chaired by Andrew Swart, was Charge 3. […]
Cape Town ‘anti-abortion doctor’ pleads not guilty to charges
HPCSA HEARING Cape Town ‘anti-abortion doctor’ pleads not guilty to charges A doctor at 2 Military Hospital in Wynberg, Cape Town has pleaded not guilty to two charges at a Health Professions Council of SA disciplinary hearing. Jacques De Vos is accused of trying to dissuade a patient from terminating her pregnancy in December 2016 […]
Feedback from fetal burial case
Feedback from fetal burial case SRJC, Women’s Legal Centre and Legal Resources Centre [Background: please refer to 2018 press release about the court case] On 14 and 15 November 2019 the Pretoria High Court will hear the matter of the Voice of the Unborn baby NPC. The applicants, in this case, are approaching the Court to declare […]
Resilience or detachment? Coping strategies among termination of pregnancy health care providers in two South African provinces
Resilience or detachment? Coping strategies among termination of pregnancy health care providers in two South African provinces Abstract There is global recognition that competent and willing health care providers remain the most important determinant of safe abortion or termination of pregnancy services. The psychosocial well-being of providers is critical to the provision of responsive termination […]
