Abortion Clinics Target Botswana

Some pro-abortion clinics seem to have found a lucrative market in Botswana as a result of the criminalisation of abortion in this country.

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.

Editor's Comment
Get back what was stolen, and lock the door

That a single private law firm pocketed P6.5 million for just four cases, out of a total P11.1 million paid for 25 matters, reeks of a system that was not merely disorganised but open to abuse.Bayford has taken a welcome first step by telling the Public Accounts Committee the truth. Now he must act decisively to ensure it never happens again and that any money lost to wrongdoing is recovered.The figures are staggering. Whilst ordinary Batswana...

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