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Jonna Both

Jonna Both

Researcher at Rutgers (Netherlands) specializing in safe abortion and gender-based violence prevention, working on the She Makes Her Safe Choice and Generation G programmes.

Sep 28, 2026

13:11
So could you tell us a little bit more about this work, about what it set out to explore, and why it felt important to understand what was happening on the ground following the legal reform?
13:26
Thank you so much, Laura.
13:27
Maybe I can give an answer and my colleagues can support when needed.
13:33
But yeah, maybe just to take us back to why we came to develop this research.
13:38
I think it's very important to share here that we did it jointly as APHRC, Rutgers and ABPF, an organization working in Benin on access to contraceptives and SRHR in general.
13:50
We actually did a research before the law was amended, a similar research, ethnographic research.
13:57
And that research, the findings were very shocking at times, because we really found out a lot about complications that women in Benin, under that more restrictive legal context, faced, or abortion complications that brought them to healthcare facilities where...

17 MINS LATER

30:49
I'm wondering if we can just touch briefly on what are some of the other structural barriers that continue to prevent people from accessing safe abortion care, despite the existence of this new law that is designed to allow it?

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