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South African nurses' accounts for choosing to be termination of pregnancy providers

Cheryl Potgieter, Gail Andrews
Health SA Gesondheid | Vol 9, No 2 | a161 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/hsag.v9i2.161 | © 2004 Cheryl Potgieter, Gail Andrews | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 08 November 2004 | Published: 08 November 2004

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Cheryl Potgieter, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Gail Andrews, University of Pretoria, South Africa

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The South African abortion law was liberalised with the introduction of the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act (CTOP) (1996).

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Met die bekendstelling van die "Wet op die Keuse van die Terminasie van Swangerskap" (1996), is die Suid-Afrikaanse wet op aborsie geliberaliseer.

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