CRISIS AS HEALTH CARE WORKERS REFUSE TO DO ABORTIONS
According to the latest Annual Report by the Western Cape Department of Health, the unwillingness of staff to perform abortions has resulted in unmanageable increases at facilities where staff are prepared to perform the procedure. Prior to the legalisation of abortion-on-demand, Doctors For Life International warned that this would happen. Health care professionals are fully aware that abortion ends the life a human being and many will therefore not participate in abortion-on-demand...[more]
2008-11-1 Angola: The Menongue outreach
In November 2008 DFL had the privilege to go to Angola for the 4th outreach. One of the donors who had made this trip possible, requested the main medical focus to be on eye surgery - more specifically cataract lens replacements....[more]
2010: prostitution not to be legalized
Doctors For Life International (DFL) welcomes the confirmation by Andries Nel, Deputy Minister of Constitutional Development, that prostitution will not be legalized or decriminalised before the 2010 Soccer World Cup. Minister Nel’s reiteration of the government’s position was preceded by Sport and Recreation Minister Makhenkesi Stofile’s statement in Parliament last week, in which he called on law enforcement agencies to be, “more stringent in putting down these antisocial activities that undermine the dignity of others” (referring to prostitution and primarily, women’s dignity). The National Prosecuting Authority also released its submission to the South African Law Reform Commission (SALRC), in which it expresses its opposition to the decriminalisation of prostitution....[more]
Premier’s Comments on Prostitution Are Deceiving
One cannot help being concerned about the flagrant promotion of prostitution by Gauteng Premier, Nomvula Mokonyane. She tends to keep referring to the opinions and solutions being promoted by the pro-decriminalisation lobby....[more]
GIRL’S CASE AGAINST ABORTION CLINIC SETTLED OUT OF COURT
Doctors For Life International (DFL) is pleased that Crystal Osler’s case for compensation against the abortion clinic, has finally come to an end....[more]
Backstreet abortion rife Because of abortion-on-demand!
Backstreet abortion continues to flourish despite the fact that the practice of abortion-on-demand was legalised 12 years ago. Based on statistics from other countries where abortion-on-demand was legalised, DFL warned the government at the time the law was passed, that legalising abortion-on-demand would NOT reduce the incidence of illegal abortions, and that it would have the opposite effect instead – namely, that of increasing illegal abortion....[more]
Prostitution: When will we ever learn?
The current saga surrounding the theft of money from the Egyptian soccer team whilst allegedly entertaining prostitutes reinforces South Africa as not only a crime capital and hub for international drug trafficking, but also as a country where prostitution is tolerated. This is being aggravated by the continuous proposals of high-ranking government officials that prostitution should be legalised for the 2010 Soccer World Cup. These reckless and irresponsible statements imply that the government is in favour of relaxing the existing laws on illegal prostitution, which will be an open invitation to sex traffickers to utilise the World Cup to induce thousands of girls into sex slavery....[more] | 
