ABSTRACT
I look at abortion legality in South Africa. South Africa’s abortion law, which is one of the most liberal abortion laws in the world, came soon after the nation’s transition to democracy. While abortion is legally available, there still remain significant barriers to access, especially for black women and women of colour, in addition to social attitudes that still revolve around exercising control over reproductive sexuality. The question then comes to be whether democratisation is truly embodied in a scenario where obstructions still operate at complex and interconnected levels, especially rooted in socio-historical circumstances of Apartheid and population control and the policing of womanhood.
