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The Arab world’s silent reproductive revolution
Changing household structures, economic growth and contraceptives prompt dramatic drop in fertility rate, study finds
Want your eggs black or white?
The fertility industry and technology are raising difficult questions about race
How readers like you are helping flip the script on illegal abortion providers.
We teamed up with readers and translators to create some of the first graphics ever on abortion in all South Africa's official languages.
Are strong-armed tactics by Big Pharma behind the country’s birth control shortage?
An international drug maker may have intentionally muscled out local competition to win the bulk of a national birth control tender.
Irish citizens prepare to vote on abortion laws
Irish health minister Simon Harris says he has faith that Irish citizens will pass the referendum
Should government health schemes pay for infertility treatment?
"Women are blamed for infertility when, in fact, as we know from research, it is quite often on the man’s side.”
Abortion in South Africa: A reporting guide for journalists
Bhekisisa's new manual provides handy information on abortion data in South Africa, how procedures work and what the law says.
Download our easy-to-use safe abortion graphics in 11 languages for free
Abortion has been legal for more than 20 years in SA but many people still don't know when or where they can get safe terminations. These can help.
13 things that will change the way you look at abortion
Everyone’s got an opinion on it but can we say the same about the facts?
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