{"id":229716,"date":"2026-04-07T02:11:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-ministry-of-health-tightens-access-to-abortion-pills\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T02:11:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:11:54","slug":"liberia-ministry-of-health-tightens-access-to-abortion-pills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-ministry-of-health-tightens-access-to-abortion-pills\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Ministry of Health Tightens Access to Abortion Pills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The Ministry of Health has announced stricter controls on the sale and use of misoprostol, a widely used medication for reproductive health, with critics warning the move could drive demand underground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"64\">In a press release dated April 3, the Ministry stated it was acting to curb what it described as the &#8220;widespread, unregulated sale and usage&#8221; of the drug across Liberia. Under the new regulations established by the Ministry, the World Health Organization (WHO)-recommended medical abortion pill will&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604060599.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Health has announced stricter controls on the sale and use of misoprostol, a widely used medication for reproductive health, with critics warning the move could drive demand underground. In a press release dated April 3, the Ministry stated it was acting to curb what it described as the &#8220;widespread, unregulated sale and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":229717,"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":[1086],"tags":[18508,6450,258,256,5731,4712,1107,6857,257,21860,254,6846],"class_list":["post-229716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-abortion","tag-access","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-health","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-ministry","tag-news","tag-pills","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tightens"],"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\/229716","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=229716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}