Gauteng Health MEC Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko has unveiled plans to roll out contraceptive implants for schoolgirls to curb rising teen pregnancies. But the plan has sparked a fierce backlash over ...

What is particularly concerning and would amount to an egregious violation of constitutional rights, reminiscent of coerced and forced sterilisation, is the MEC's decision to make the contraceptive ...

Next he says that the only remedy for the over-production of children by the least fit is ” compulsory sterilisation as a punishment for parents who have to resort to public assistance in order ...

The hopes and prayers of the women were to have a safe birthing process and return to their houses with their bundle of joy.

The Gauteng Department of Health has explained its plans to give schoolgirls contraceptives as one of the ways to tackle ...

The bodily autonomy of young women and girls is under threat as Gauteng health and wellness MEC Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko intends to make the contraceptive Implanon compulsory for pupils as long as their ...

reminiscent of coerced and forced sterilisation, is the MEC’s decision to make the contraceptive Implanon, an implant, compulsory for pupils based only on parental consent and not the consent of ...

From then on others were built around the country, such as the Basingstoke Steam Laundry and Baths, which was opened in 1885.

Unfortunately, the ruling was concerned only with compulsory sterilization, not the issue of de facto sterilization, or women losing their biological ability to procreate while being held in custody.

Demonstrating the power of social media, Lyberth swiftly heard from other women and formed a Facebook group to share their experiences (a similar pathway followed by women who successfully campaigned ...

Sterilisation has become a fashionable obsession ... ‘It is an interesting fact that as soon as universal compulsory fertility regulation is accepted in principle, some notion of positive eugenics ...