Abortion Clinics Target Botswana
Saturday, May 03, 2014
Most of these ‘clinics’ are now using the power of the social media to target pregnant Batswana women through advertisements, especially by creating Facebook pages. Of late, the social network site has been flooded with advertisements luring pregnant Batswana women to terminate their pregnancies.
A Facebook search for “abortion clinic” will promptly give one the following pages: Abortion Clinic Botswana, MediClinic Botswana, Botswana Gaborone, Abortion Clinic and Pills, Safe Abortion Pills Clinic Botswana, and so on.
It is a clear signal that the government’s purse is empty and that our own behaviour has left veterinary officials fighting with one hand tied behind their backs. We have been here before. During COVID-19, many of us thought we knew better. We ignored simple rules, we carried on as if the danger was someone else’s problem, and the virus took lives and left our economy on its knees. We are still broke from that experience. Yet now, with FMD...