Marie Stopes offers safe termination of unwanted pregnancies

Nomakhaya Mfundisi - Clinical quality and training facilitator for Marie Stopes spoke to us about safely terminating unwanted pregnancies. According to news reports over the year’s abortion clinics in Cape Town say that traditionally there is a sharp increase in the number of schoolgirls aged between 12 and 18 who had unwanted pregnancies terminated after falling pregnant during the December break. Marie Stopes offers the termination of unwanted pregnancies up to 20 weeks. There are 2 different methods namely Medical (up to 9 weeks of pregnancy) which uses oral medicine as the first set of tablets is taken in the centre after consultation with a nurse or doctor and the second set is taken later at home. Surgical method (from 6 to 20 weeks of pregnancy) is a same-day surgical procedure preformed by a trained nurse or doctor. For further information you can contact Marie Stopes on 0800 11 77 85 toll free to book an appointment.