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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Mara Verza and Ginnette Riquelme

Takeaways from AP's report on secretive networks helping women circumvent Honduras' abortion ban

Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

In remote mountain villages, urban neighborhoods, along the Caribbean coast — despite Honduras’ national abortion ban and amid suffocating social and religious opposition, women are terminating pregnancies with the help of clandestine networks seeking to make the procedure as safe as possible.

The networks use code words, aliases, encrypted messages, burner phones and other tactics to disguise their activity. Most participants don’t know one another, or any specifics beyond their role in the chain that ultimately provides information and the abortion pills endorsed by the World Health Organization.

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