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Malaysia.(MONITORING COUNTRY ACTIVITIES)
Unwanted pregnancies and women's reproductive choices and rights, including access to contraception and safe abortion services, were the key issues taken up in the Kehamilan yang tidak diingini: Pilihan wanita dan hak-hak reproduktif ke atas kontrasepsi dan pengguguran session at the Fiesta Feminista-Malaysia on 17 June 2007 in Kuala Lumpur. Organised by the Reproductive Rights Advocacy Alliance of Malaysia (RRAAM), the 2-hour parallel session was attended by about 30 participants-mostly coming from women's organisations all over the country and a few media practitioners.
Rashidah Abdullah, RRAAM co-coordinator, ARROW co-founder and long-time reproductive rights activist, laid out Malaysian women's sexual and reproductive realities vis-a-vis the government's poor family planning programme, which result in women's low use of contraceptives and high rates of unwanted pregnancies. She outlined various choices women make in dealing with unwanted pregnancies, discussed the issues surrounding access to safe abortion services (e.g., quality and legal issues, economic and social barriers, availability of post-abortion counselling, and others) and ended with a discussion on women's reproductive rights. Mr. S. Radhakrishnan, lawyer and former President of the Medico Legal ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Malaysia.(MONITORING COUNTRY ACTIVITIES)