Tanzanian women endangered by illegal abortions -TRFN

By Kizito Makoye Dar es Salaam (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Lydia Daudi saw no other choice than to end her six-week pregnancy to spare her deeply religious family from the shame of a pregnancy before marriage. “I was very scared and shocked because it was my first time to do such a thing,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. The interview was arranged by a Dar es Salaam-based group that protects women’s rights and declined to be identified. Abortion is illegal in Tanzania except to save a woman’s life and is punishable by up to 14 years in prison.
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