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Clandestine abortion and access to safe abortion

Clandestine abortion refers to the voluntary termination of a pregnancy illegally. This definition is in the lay man terms for easy understanding.

Under the project pledge for the development of policies and adoption of a law in favor to safe abortion access in Cameroon, a study was carried out in the four socio cultural corners of Cameroon.

The result of this study proves that, in 100 percent abortion cases recorded amongst the people that were interviewed, 68 percent were voluntary and the women did not show any remorse as they stated that if the opportunity presented itself again they won’t hesitate to do it.

In this 68 percent of women who were interviewed, it was noticed that those who practice most of those abortions are married women with a percentage of 36.80. Second were single ladies who are scared of raising kids by themselves with a percentage of 30.80 and in third position are divorced women with a percentage of 9.75

The graphs below illustrates it best

Unwanted pregnancy seems to be something which has come to stay despite the sensitization campaigns and teachings on how to avoid unwanted pregnancies. To this effect, even in a thousand years to come, it is evident that women will still practice abortions. The question is, will the abortions be safe or unsafe? It’s important that we amplify the fight against clandestine abortion to save more women.

Since November 2024, Dynamic Femmes has been carrying out a series of activities to raise awareness on the dangers of clandestine abortion and seek possible solutions to this fast becoming public health concern. one of these activities is webinars which are organised atleast ones every month.

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Thousands of women contineu to lose their lives due to clandestine abortion. These women are our mothers, sister, aunties, cousins, nieces etc. Its high time we put an end to this public health concern.

At Dynamic Femme, we have opened a call center which offers therapy services to women and girls in the phase of abortion and those traumatized after abortion (post clandestine abortion).
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Des milliers de femmes continuent de perdre leur vie à cause des avortements clandestins. Ces femmes sont nos mères, sœurs, tantes, cousines, nièces, etc. Il est grand temps de mettre fin à ce problème de santé publique.

A Dynamic Femme, nous avons ouvert un centre d’ecoute qui offre des services de thérapie aux femmes et aux filles en phase d’avortement et à celles traumatisées après un avortement (post avortement clandestin).

venez ou bipez simplement pour avoir l’aide que vous méritez : 675275741 / 692584854

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Dynamic Femmes and it’s five partners come together to deliberate on the task ahead.

Partners working together with Dynamic Femmes on the project « Pledges For the Developement of Politics and the Adoption of a Law in Favour of Safe Abortion Access in Cameroon » came together in Nkongsamba on wednesday 22nd January 2025 for a Working session, to discuss and dispatch work tasks for the collection of data on the practice of clandestine abortions in Cameroon.

During the meeting, Participants were briefed on the work they have to do on the field.
There was a presentation of the questionnaires that will be used by the researchers on the field to interview medical personnels and the local population.
We equally had the presentation of the charges that will be taken care of by Dynamic femmes. Some amendements made by the partners were taken into consideration
At the end of the day, contracts were signed implying that work has to begine immediately.

Pledge for the development of policies and adoption of a law in favor to safe abortion access in Cameroon

In Cameroon, it is difficult to say how many girls and women die or develop very complicated health problems as a result of clandestine abortion unless one has conducted a thorough research and gotten the right statistics. Getting these statistics right is a great problem because for some reasons, people don’t talk about their abortion experiences. These reasons include the fact that, abortion is an illegal practice in Cameroon and so victims feel intimidated and fear being incarcerated.

Another reason which has been observed as to why people hardly speak about abortion experiences in the society if because of religion, cultural and family background restriction. The fear of being looked down on by the society because one committed an abortion pushes victims to clandestine abortion.

In a study published by the international federation of gynecologist and obstetrics abbreviated as FIGO, they state that, “legal restrictions on abortion do not reduce the problem of abortions but rather pave way for more abortions that are unsafe. Organizations and groups of people have embarked on a journey of research on this particular topic but no matter how they try; the results have not been fully satisfying. This is where Dynamic femmes steps in.

Amplify Change has sponsored a project with Dynamic Femmes being the main actor. This project aims to pledge for laws and policies that will enable women and girls have access to safe abortion there by fighting the problem of clandestine abortion in Cameroon. During this project, Dynamic Femmes aims to equip the team and key actors of the project with essential knowledge on the concept of “Do No Harm”. This means that they should be able to handle cases of post clandestine abortion without making the victims feel responsible or guilty of their current situation. Reach out to as many girls and woman as possible who have lived the horror of clandestine abortion with the intention of recording enough statistics that other projects have not been able to attain. Dynamic Femmes will equally be creative in their communication strategies, using mean stream Medias and social Media. The result of this project is to enable law makers in Cameroon to see reasons why safe abortion access is a must and not an option.

LISA MBIYBE