Compassion key to addressing maternal health challenges in Nigeria
Àjose Nigeria has urged religious leaders and churches across the country to embrace compassion as a critical tool in addressing Nigeria’s maternal health challenges, saying supporting access to life-saving healthcare for women facing high-risk pregnancies should not be misconstrued as endorsing abortion.
The same study found that 37 per cent of respondents did not know that abortion is already legal in Nigeria when it is necessary to save the life of a pregnant woman.
In Lagos, a study by the public health organisation, Campaign Against Unwanted Pregnancy, CAUP, found that 52 per cent of maternal deaths were linked to unsafe abortions.
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