Mpho, who asked that CNN not
use her real name, didn't know who she was talking to. She found the
phone number on a Facebook post while searching for "abortion pills,
Lesotho" online. The person reading her messages claimed to be a doctor.
In
Lesotho, a remote country home to just 2.2 million people and
surrounded by South Africa, abortion is strictly illegal, apart from in
life-threatening cases.
Women who have abortions in Lesotho face being outcast from their communities, or arrested.
As
a result, many are driven to the anonymity of the Internet. Mpho, 27,
found contact details on Facebook for several men claiming to be
doctors, all hawking abortion pills.
A
quick search on Facebook yields dozens of different pages and events
advertising abortions, many featuring stock images of white women
popping tablets, or holding their pregnant bellies. Their posts offer
"safe" abortion pills. All sell the same hope to young women in Lesotho.
Source: Edition.cnn
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