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dc.contributor.author | Kangaude, Godfrey Dalitso | |
dc.contributor.author | Mhango, Chisale | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-05-06T12:08:18Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-12 | |
dc.description.abstract | Despite adopting a progressive legal and policy framework informed by internationally recognized human rights norms and values, Malawi has not complied with the obligation to explain its abortion law in accordance with legal and human rights standards. In 1930, the colonial government adopted a Penal Code derived from English criminal law, containing provisions regulating access to abortion, but has not undertaken measures to explain when abortion is lawful. What constitutes legal abortion has never been clarified for health providers and potential clients. Consequently, eligible girls and women fail to access safe and legal abortion. The Malawi Law Commission, following its review of the colonial abortion law, has proposed liberal changes which, if implemented, would expand access to safe abortion. However, the immediate step the government ought to take is to clarify the current abortion law, and not to wait for a new law expected to materialize in the indeterminate future. | en_ZA |
dc.description.department | Private Law | en_ZA |
dc.description.embargo | 2019-12-01 | |
dc.description.librarian | hj2019 | en_ZA |
dc.description.sponsorship | Regional Team for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Embassy of Sweden, Lusaka, Zambia | en_ZA |
dc.description.uri | http://wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/ijgo | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.citation | Kangaude, G. & Mhango, C. 2018, 'The duty to make abortion law transparent: a Malawi case study', International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, vol. 143, no. 3, pp. 409-413. | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.issn | 0020-7292 (print) | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1879-3479 (online) | |
dc.identifier.other | 10.1002/ijgo.12630 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/69049 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
dc.publisher | Wiley | en_ZA |
dc.rights | © 2018 International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics. This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article : 'The duty to make abortion law transparent: a Malawi case study', International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, vol. 143, no. 3, pp. 409-413, 2018, doi : 10.1002/ijgo.12630. The definite version is available at : http://wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/ijgo. | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Abortion law | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Legal standards | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Human rights standards | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Malawi | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Transparency | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Lawful abortion | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Implementation | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Health and human rights | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Colonial abortion law | en_ZA |
dc.title | The duty to make abortion law transparent : a Malawi case study | en_ZA |
dc.type | Postprint Article | en_ZA |