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Teenage mothers are not ‘terrorists’ who need to be punished
But few will to listen to researchers who refute society’s accepted notion that teenage pregnancy is damaging to the child, mother and society.
People need to know more about abortion and contraception
A number of fallacious assumptions undermine the effectiveness of measures to prevent or terminate a pregnancy, writes Catriona Macleod.
Why inclusive education must work
Our system of education is failing those with learning disabilities, writes Catriona Macleod Simphiwe, Thulani and Sipho have never met each other. But they have many things in…
Pregnancy – your right to choose
Soon after the first democratic elections in South Africa in 1994, the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy (CTOP) Act of 1996, which, for the first time, legalised abortion, was…
Complexities of teenage motherhood
In the April column on teenage pregnancy, we saw how teenage pregnancy is defined as a problem because of the disruption of schooling that potentially accompanies it and the…