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A considerable proportion of teenage pregnancies in South Africa result from forced sexual encounters, highlighting the urgent need for comprehensive efforts to address the issues of GBV and teenage pregnancy concurrently to protect the well-being of adolescents.
A crass ‘teenage pregnancy = statutory rape’ cry will simply exacerbate this. An open letter to Minister of Health Joe Phaahla.
Kekeletso Khena started the petition to protect children from paedophiles, but it might not fit in with the laws of the country.
Nearly 6,000 people have petitioned the department of health to introduce a policy that forces doctors to report pregnancies in minors to the police to investigate statutory rape.
To tackle Teenage pregnancy, we need measures that go beyond merely promoting abstinence, a recent symposium heard.