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NEWS & LETTERS, May 2002
Column: Women Worldwide by Mary Jo GreyNurses in Sydney, Australia
have received overwhelming public support in their campaign to solve the nursing
shortage by improving both pay and conditions of patient care. In mid-April,
nurses went to four commuter railway stations in Sydney and collected more than
50,000 signatures on petitions of support. The petitions will be presented to
the New South Wales government at the end of May. *** A Kenyan gynecologist has taken on the "taboo" of abortion, currently illegal throughout most of Africa despite statistics showing that African women are more likely to die in an unsafe abortion than women anywhere else in the world. Dr. Solomon Orero performs abortions using a loophole in the Kenyan law that allows the procedure if performed safely to save a woman's life. Dr. Orero says he is saving a woman's life if he terminates the pregnancy she planned on ending herself with a dangerous method. |
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