“If I were to ask you, where one can get an abortion, would you know? Would you be able to point a person to a facility that provides abortion from the top of your head?” asks Dr Daphney Conco, a senior lecturer at the School of Public Health at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Conco’s research focuses on social determinants of health, eradication of extreme poverty and hunger, promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment, advocating for sexual and reproductive health, and mapping the epidemiology of abortion access in South Africa.
During an interview with Spotlight, she says most people still don’t know. “Access is not where we feel it should be. We still find people saying I have a person who wants to have an abortion, the person is from Limpopo, the person is from…