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class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><p> <b>Abortion in Uganda</b> is illegal unless performed by a licensed medical doctor in a situation where the woman's life is deemed to be at risk.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>With women lacking access to safe and legal abortions, many of them turn to unsafe abortion practices, such as self-induced abortions. The <a href="/wiki/Uganda" title="Uganda">Ugandan</a> <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Health_(Uganda)" title="Ministry of Health (Uganda)">Ministry of Health</a> in the Annual Health Sector Performance Report of 2017-2018 estimates that as of 2018<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abortion_in_Uganda&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, 5.3% of all <a href="/wiki/Maternal_death" title="Maternal death">maternal deaths</a> result from <a href="/wiki/Abortion" title="Abortion">abortion</a> complications.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There are many legal and socioeconomic barriers to safe abortion and other family planning services, which often results in women using unsafe abortion methods and being deterred from seeking <a href="/wiki/Post-abortion_medical_care" class="mw-redirect" title="Post-abortion medical care">post-abortion medical care</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Contraception is also not commonly used or easily accessible, which leads to Ugandan women having more children than they desire and increases the number of women resorting to unsafe abortions.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:02_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legal_status_of_abortion">Legal status of abortion</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abortion_in_Uganda&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Legal status of abortion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Ugandan Constitution, in Article 22, item 2 states: "No person has the right to terminate the life of an unborn child except as may be authorised by law."<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Abortion is thus criminalized in Uganda unless it is done by a licensed and registered physician to save a woman's life or preserve the physical or mental health of the woman.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-UNPPDB2_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UNPPDB2-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Ugandan Ministry of Health's 2006 <i>National Policy Guidelines and Service Standards for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights</i> lays out a number of specific cases in which women have the right to seek an abortion, including rape, sexual violence or incest, or when the woman has pre-existing conditions such as HIV or cervical cancer.<sup id="cite_ref-:12_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:12-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, many healthcare providers remain unaware of the expansiveness of cases when abortion is allowed, resulting in legal abortion access still being difficult.<sup id="cite_ref-:02_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Laws_on_abortion">Laws on abortion</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abortion_in_Uganda&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Laws on abortion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><p> The Penal Code of 1950 states in Section 141, "Attempts to procure abortion":</p><blockquote><p>Any person who, with intent to procure the miscarriage of a woman whether she is or is not with child, unlawfully administers to her or causes her to take any poison or other noxious thing, or uses any force of any kind, or uses any other means, commits a felony and is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote><p>Section 142 deems an attempt to procure an unlawful abortion is punishable by imprisonment of seven years, and Section 143 states that anyone who aids a woman in performing an unlawful abortion can be imprisoned up to three years.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Nonetheless, Section 224 of the Code provides that a person is not criminally responsible for performing in good faith and with reasonable care and skill a surgical operation upon an unborn child for the preservation of the mother's life.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition, Section 205 of the Code provides that no person shall be guilty of the offence of causing by willful act a child to die before it has an independent existence from its mother if the act was carried out in good faith for the purpose of preserving the mother's life. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Common_law_applications_to_Ugandan_abortion_law">Common law applications to Ugandan abortion law</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abortion_in_Uganda&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Common law applications to Ugandan abortion law"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Uganda, like a number of Commonwealth countries whose legal systems are based the English common law, follows the holding of the 1938 English <i><a href="/wiki/Rex_v_Bourne" title="Rex v Bourne">Rex v Bourne</a></i> decision in determining whether an abortion performed for health reasons is lawful.<sup id="cite_ref-:12_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:12-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the Bourne decision, a physician was acquitted of the offence of performing an abortion in the case of a 15 year-old girl who had been raped.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The English Court ruled that the abortion was lawful because it had been performed to prevent the woman from becoming "a physical and mental wreck", thus setting a precedent for future abortion cases performed on the grounds of preserving the pregnant woman's physical and mental health. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Government_family_planning">Government family planning</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abortion_in_Uganda&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Government family planning"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Unintended pregnancy is the most commonly cited reason that Ugandan women seek abortions.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thus, family planning programs are one way to lower the prevalence of illegal and/or unsafe abortions. </p><p>In 1988, the Ugandan government launched a comprehensive program in response to the country's high <a href="/wiki/Total_fertility_rate" title="Total fertility rate">fertility and growth rates</a>, which adversely affected per capita incomes and threatened the sustainability of social services.<sup id="cite_ref-:22_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:22-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The major goal was to increase the contraceptive rate from 5% to 20% by 2000. For instance, the program made birth control accessible at clinics across the country operated by the <a href="/wiki/Family_Planning_Association" title="Family Planning Association">Family Planning Association</a> of Uganda.<sup id="cite_ref-:22_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:22-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There was direct support provided in the government's policy on contraceptive use, and since 1995, 8% of married women aged 15 to 49 use contraception.<sup id="cite_ref-:22_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:22-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The total fertility rate from 1995 to 2000 was 7.1, and the age specific fertility rate per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19 from 1995 to 2000 was 180.<sup id="cite_ref-:32_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:32-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of 2018, Uganda's total fertility rate stands at 5.5 children born per 1,000 women.<sup id="cite_ref-:32_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:32-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>However, the demand for modern contraception—especially emergency contraception—is still unmet.<sup id="cite_ref-:42_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:42-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many Ugandan women cite a lack of access to family planning services or information as an explanation for not using contraceptives.<sup id="cite_ref-:42_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:42-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2014, the Ministry of Health launched the <i>Family Planning Costed Implementation Plan (CIP)</i> with a goal of increasing education and access to family planning for Ugandans.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This commitment to increasing access to family planning has had tremendous impact, with a study revealing that the contraceptive prevalence rate has jumped to 39% as of 2016, while maternal mortality ratios have dropped by around 25%.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Post-abortion_care">Post-abortion care</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abortion_in_Uganda&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Post-abortion care"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Post-abortion_care" title="Post-abortion care">Post-abortion care</a> is not explicitly criminalized in Uganda.<sup id="cite_ref-:52_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:52-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In fact, healthcare providers who treat women for bleeding, infections, or other post-abortion complications are forbidden by law from interrogating their patients or reporting them to the authorities.<sup id="cite_ref-:62_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:62-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the police often does not care to differentiate between abortion and post-abortion care, leading to healthcare workers who provide either being punished just the same.<sup id="cite_ref-:52_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:52-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In Uganda, 89% of healthcare facilities with the capacity to provide post-abortion care actively treat post-abortion complications.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, according to Uganda's Minister of State for Health for General Duties, <a href="/wiki/Sarah_Achieng_Opendi" title="Sarah Achieng Opendi">Sarah Opendi</a>, an annual loss of 25 billion Uganda shillings occurred as a result of post-abortion care and treatment from unsafe abortions.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Additionally, it was found that on average, three quarters of women who utilized unsafe abortion methods suffered from a loss of productivity and more than a third of women ended up worse off economically.<sup id="cite_ref-:72_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:72-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As such, the argument for increasing access to safe abortion services and family planning services, which leads to reduced unsafe abortions and reduced need for costly post-abortion care, is often framed in economic terms.<sup id="cite_ref-:72_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:72-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Discourse_on_abortion_in_Ugandan_society">Discourse on abortion in Ugandan society</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abortion_in_Uganda&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Discourse on abortion in Ugandan society"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Abortion-rights_movements" class="mw-redirect" title="Abortion-rights movements">Abortion rights</a> and <a href="/wiki/Anti-abortion_movements" title="Anti-abortion movements">anti-abortion</a> movements exist in Uganda.<sup id="cite_ref-:62_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:62-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As a Christian majority country, much of the discourse on abortion is shaped by strong conservative religious forces, which argue that abortion is akin to murder and which influence anti-abortion policies.<sup id="cite_ref-:82_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:82-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Along these lines, the Pro-Life Organisation, a global Christian movement, has gained popularity in Uganda in recent years.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2013, Pro-Life was joined by over 100 delegates from the U.S., United Kingdom, Uganda, and Spain in a three-day workshop that advocated against abortion.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the same time, there have been increasing calls for the liberalization of Uganda's abortion laws.<sup id="cite_ref-:62_23-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:62-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Abortion rights discourse often centers around human rights arguments, specifically that a pregnant woman has the <a href="/wiki/Right_to_health" title="Right to health">right to health</a>, life, and choice.<sup id="cite_ref-:82_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:82-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Medical arguments also support this, saying that liberalized abortion laws and expanded access to safe abortions have led to improved women's health.<sup id="cite_ref-:82_27-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:82-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abortion_in_Uganda&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maternal_health_in_Uganda" title="Maternal health in Uganda">Maternal health in Uganda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Child_health_in_Uganda" title="Child health in Uganda">Child health in Uganda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women_in_Uganda" title="Women in Uganda">Women in Uganda</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abortion_in_Uganda&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span 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href="/wiki/Abortion_in_Nigeria" title="Abortion in Nigeria">Nigeria</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abortion_in_Rwanda&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Abortion in Rwanda (page does not exist)">Rwanda</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abortion_in_S%C3%A3o_Tom%C3%A9_and_Pr%C3%ADncipe&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Abortion in São Tomé and Príncipe (page does not exist)">São Tomé and Príncipe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abortion_in_Senegal" title="Abortion in Senegal">Senegal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abortion_in_Seychelles" title="Abortion in Seychelles">Seychelles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abortion_in_Sierra_Leone" title="Abortion in Sierra Leone">Sierra Leone</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abortion_in_Somalia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Abortion in Somalia (page does not exist)">Somalia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abortion_in_South_Africa" title="Abortion in South Africa">South Africa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abortion_in_South_Sudan" title="Abortion in South Sudan">South Sudan</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abortion_in_Sudan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Abortion in Sudan (page does not exist)">Sudan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abortion_in_Tanzania" title="Abortion in Tanzania">Tanzania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abortion_in_Togo" title="Abortion in Togo">Togo</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abortion_in_Tunisia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Abortion in Tunisia (page does not exist)">Tunisia</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Uganda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abortion_in_Zambia" title="Abortion in Zambia">Zambia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abortion_in_Zimbabwe" title="Abortion in Zimbabwe">Zimbabwe</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">States with limited<br />recognition</div></th><td 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href="/w/index.php?title=Abortion_in_Saint_Helena&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Abortion in Saint Helena (page does not exist)">Saint Helena</a> / <a href="/w/index.php?title=Abortion_in_Ascension_Island&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Abortion in Ascension Island (page does not exist)">Ascension Island</a> / <a href="/w/index.php?title=Abortion_in_Tristan_da_Cunha&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Abortion in Tristan da Cunha (page does not exist)">Tristan da Cunha</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(United Kingdom)</span></li></ul> </div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Human_rights_in_Uganda" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" 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href="/wiki/Uganda_Securities_Exchange" title="Uganda Securities Exchange">Stock exchange</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Uganda" class="mw-redirect" title="Telecommunications in Uganda">Telecommunications</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tourism_in_Uganda" title="Tourism in Uganda">Tourism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trade_unions_in_Uganda" title="Trade unions in Uganda">Trade unions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transport_in_Uganda" title="Transport in Uganda">Transport</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Category:Society_of_Uganda" title="Category:Society of Uganda">Society</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div 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