Yesterday's episode of Motswako scared a living hell out of me, when i heard of what gals who have backstreet abortion get up to.
Thanks to that guy who borrowed my keyboard, i couldn't take snapshots of the guestsThe main guests was a girl who had an backstreet abortion, she was 15 at the time it happened.
this was her storyShe found out on the 2nd of October through a home pregnancy test that she was pregnant, she told the baby's father and he supported her. They decided to wait for a month to see if she doesnt get her periods. She missed them and the baby's father was supportive all this time. In december she got really sick that she she had to be taken to a doctor because of stomach cramps. Her mother stayed outside when she went inside the doctor's room. I was like @ 15? , my mother still went inside with me last year @ 21..! The doctor did confirm that she is pregnant.
She never told her mother or anyone in the family but instead she called a number that she found on daily sun for abortions. She said the person was in Roodepoort and she went there the following day.
The guy put 4 pills into her private parts and she was told after 7 hours she will give birth and she should take the baby and throw it in the bin very far from her home. The pills never worked the first time, she went back again and the second time around they worked.
She said she felt labour pains at night and went to the toilet time and again. When her mother asked her what was wrong, she said it was period pains..! her mother didn't mind because she had problems with period pains everymonth.
When her mother went to the bathroom, she found blood on the floor and she asked her daughter if she had an abortion. Her mother said she felt like she was thinking bad things about her daughter and she left her.
This girl said she took the baby and wrapped a newspaper around it, put it into a plastic and threw it in the neigbours's drain. She was sick after that and the baby's father thought it was pregnancy related and he offered to take her to the doctor
Two days later she noticed a cord growing inside her, and it was smelling terrible. She then decided it was time to tell the family.
The family took her to the doctor and she stayed in hospital for about a wek, because they needed to clean her inside and when she got back they organised counselling and she is now fine and is not ashamed to speak about it.
What bothered me is that
She never wanted counselling before the procedure, she said she just wanted them to remove the baby.
She had all the support from the father, but then again she thougt of her studies and disappointing her family.
They also had a guest from a centre in Gugulethu, who explained that she has cases like those on a daily basis and most gals resort for backstreet abortion because they scared that nurses in public hospitals may know them and that way they might become a disgrace to their communities and sometimes they even get chased away at churches.
The last guest was a doctor from Marie Stopes clinic, who explained how you spot a shady abortion practitioner.
First of all, they give cell numbers as their contacts and they mostly pick up gals from shady corners and take them to where the procedures is to be perfomed.
pre and post counselling is not compulsory with them.
Although i do not think abortion is the solution to the problem of unwanted pregnancy, i think gals should refrain form backstreet ones.
How many people have died from it?
I have heard stories of people drining sta soft or boiling the green sunlight bath soap and drinking it, just to kill a baby that you could have safely and freely removed from the goverment hospital.
I hear nurses in goverment hospitals are very rude to gals giving birth or having abortion but then i still think one cant risk her life because of a nurse, who doesn't want to do what she gets paid to do.
I've heard stories of "open your legs wide like you were doing when you were making this baby", but i do still think anyone who is seen advertising this backstreet abortions must be tracked down and arrested.
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