{"id":226302,"date":"2026-03-07T13:35:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T11:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-women-in-ghana-can-access-safe-abortions-why-are-so-many-still-using-unsafe-methods\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T13:35:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T11:35:25","slug":"ghana-women-in-ghana-can-access-safe-abortions-why-are-so-many-still-using-unsafe-methods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-women-in-ghana-can-access-safe-abortions-why-are-so-many-still-using-unsafe-methods\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Women in Ghana Can Access Safe Abortions &#8211; Why Are So Many Still Using Unsafe Methods?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guttmacher.org\/fact-sheet\/abortion-ghana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ghana&#8217;s abortion law<\/a> is relatively liberal. Abortion is legally permitted in the first trimester when a pregnancy endangers the mother&#8217;s life or physical or mental health, or when it is due to rape or incest. Thus, medication abortion has become more widely available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iris.who.int\/server\/api\/core\/bitstreams\/ebbf577b-d3ff-4a81-b0d9-bdf3b1e9f2ac\/content\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Medication abortion<\/a> involves the use of mifepristone and misoprostol pills which stop pregnancy and enable the uterus to expel it naturally. When used correctly and with proper guidance it is an acceptable, effective and safe&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603060005.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana&#8217;s abortion law is relatively liberal. Abortion is legally permitted in the first trimester when a pregnancy endangers the mother&#8217;s life or physical or mental health, or when it is due to rape or incest. Thus, medication abortion has become more widely available. Medication abortion involves the use of mifepristone and misoprostol pills which stop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":226303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[1381,6450,258,256,4508,4509,21635,257,6803,254,13722,6524],"class_list":["post-226302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-abortions","tag-access","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-methods","tag-news","tag-safe","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unsafe","tag-women"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}