Operation Legalise Abortion

We are determined feminists doing our part to make abortion safe and legal in Nigeria.

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The importance of reproductive rights for Nigerian women, including the choice to have a safe and legal abortion, cannot be understated. It's time this crucial issue was given urgency.

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I'm hopeful that the work @onosowobo is doing with @OLAbortion leads to more mindset shifts and eventual policy changes in Nigeria.

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Loved the @OLAbortion conversation with Dr Kedei Ibiang and Pro choice Nigeria today

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#OLAbortionWebinar has been concluded! Thank you to all the speakers, our moderator, and everyone who tuned in to The Discussion on the Right to Abortion in Nigeria. A recording of the webinar will be available on all our social media and on YouTube. #OperationLegaliseAbortion

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"We need to find a way to speak to religious women about abortion, but outside religious spaces."

— Dr Kedei Ibiang. #OLAbortionWebinar

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"We're publishing an easy-to-read handbook on abortion. We're also always looking for stories of women who have had abortions, if they are willing to share with us."

Adenike, of Operation Legalise Abortion. #OLAbortionWebinar

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Even when women decide to keep it, there may be a moral and religious angle to that; Nigerians often say to women who got pregnant by rape: "It may be God's will. God may have hands in it."

— Dr Kedei Ibiang. #OLAbortionWebinar

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"Different women experience different emotional reactions to sexual trauma. Some women take months to come to terms with it, and when they come to the hospital, they are already pregnant. Then the Nigerian law says the pregnancy can only be terminated if it endangers her life."

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"We need informed women in positions of authority to push the bill to reform the abortion law. We also need to educate the general populace on abortion."

— Dr Kedei Ibiang. #OLAbortionWebinar

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"The fight to reform the abortion law in Nigeria has been on since 1971 and medical women have been involved. It has been tough because of the religious and moral angle. We need to decide if we are running a religious state or not."

— Dr Kedei Ibiang. #OLAbortionWebinar

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"Having these conversations. Making abortion more affordable for poorer women. Legalisation is not enough."

— Derin Ajayi, on the next step for women who want abortion legalised in Nigeria. #OLAbortionWebinar

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"Abortion is a class issue because despite that abortion is illegal in Nigeria, women who can afford it are able to get it done at private hospitals. While women in rural areas are not able to, or have to seek abortion at places that may not even have doctors."

— Dr Kedei Ibiang

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"Legalising abortion could make victims of sexual assault feel less alone. It could make them less resentful of how society works. It gives them the choice to not be forced to carry a pregnancy gotten from abuse."

— Derin Ajayi. #OLAbortionWebinar

[Operation Legalise Abortion @OLAbortion]

"Unplanned pregnancy sets women back, financially and career-wise. When abortion is legalised, if anything happens, if contraceptive fails, women do not have to suffer that fate."

— Dr Kedei Ibiang. #OLAbortionWebinar

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"You go to a hospital and they tell you if you're not married, you can't have family planning."

— Dr Kedei Ibiang. #OLAbortionWebinar

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"Because of our false sense of morality, people are not confident to walk into a pharmacy and request for contraceptives."

— Dr Kedei Ibiang. #OLAbortionWebinar

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"Presently, abortion contributes to about 40% of the maternal deaths in Nigeria. If we legalise abortion in Nigeria, we could take out 20% of that. We could reduce maternal deaths in Nigeria by legalising abortion."

— Dr Kedei Ibiang. #OLAbortionWebinar

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Moderator, Alo Mary:

"Nigeria has one of the highest maternity rates in the world. Deaths from unsafe abortion contribute to those rates."

#OLAbortionWebinar

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Moderator, Alo Mary:

"In Nigeria, abortion is legal only when it's to save the woman's life. Yet, unsafe abortions continue to happen and they are done by unskilled providers."

#OLAbortionWebinar