What are the characteristics of online illegal or informal providers? Please do check and be careful
- They will only provide a cellphone number
Picture taken in the Southern train in Cape Town - They will not provide a landline address
- They will not advertise their physical address
- They will not tell you about the methods they use
- They will want you to pay cash up front and not have other payment methods
- They will use medical abortion tablets, usually the same kind. For a medical abortion you need two different types of tablets taken at different times.
- They will tell you to not come back but go to a government hospital if you have a problem
- They will tell you that they can do the abortion up to 20 weeks 10 weeks after your last period or more.