No room for abortions: unwanted pregnancies in virus-hit S.Africa | – Macau Business

South African student Jessica* had already missed two periods when she shyly slipped into a clinic to seek an abortion in early July, as the coronavirus outbreak was reaching its peak.
Nurses scurrying to accomodate a long line of patients with varying ailments told the 19-year-old that the clinic was “fully booked” and advised her to try at a hospital.
Two months later, with the help of a local rights group lobbying hospitals to assist, Jessica was finally booked in for a procedure that requi…

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