获得性保健和生殖保健是一项宪法权利,从更广泛的角度来看,是普遍健康权的一部分。1996年《终止妊娠选择法》(CTOP)是朝着致力于以公平和基于权利的方法提供全面的性健康和生殖健康服务迈出的重要一步。尽管堕胎是合法的,在南非进行了二十多年的堕胎法改革之后,不安全的堕胎仍然是孕产妇死亡的可避免因素。1996年第92号CTOP法案及其修正案,提供了一个立法框架;然而,需要更多地重申性健康和生殖健康自由。
Access to sexual and reproductive healthcare is a constitutional right and on a broader perspective is part of the universal right to health. The Choice on Termination of Pregnancy (CTOP) Act of 1996 was a major step towards commitment to providing comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services in an equitable and rights-based approach. Despite abortion being legally available, unsafe abortion is still an avoidable factor of maternal deaths after more than two decades of abortion law reform in South Africa. The CTOP Act 92 of 1996, with its amendments, provides a legislative framework; however, more is needed to reaffirm the sexual and reproductive health freedom.