
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.
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Sep 28, 2026
Making rights real: Abortion access after legal reform in Benin
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Laura FergusonHOST
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?

Jonna BothGUEST
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.

Jonna BothGUEST
We actually did a research before the law was amended, a similar research, ethnographic research.

Jonna BothGUEST
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...
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Laura FergusonHOST
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?