Sierra Leone could become the second country in West Africa to decriminalize abortion, which health workers say would ...

When she got pregnant at 16, Fatou Esther Jusu was terrified that it would derail her future. Abortion is illegal in Sierra Leone. Fearing judgment from her family, she took friends’ advice and bought ...

Samura said a 13-year-old — already mother to a 10-month ... unidentified pills to try to abort her pregnancy. “In Sierra Leone, people are afraid of the stigma … so they would prefer ...

Abortion is illegal in Sierra Leone. Fearing judgment from her family, she took friends' advice and bought misoprostol, a drug whose uses include abortion, from a local pharmacy. It didn't work.