Explainer: No, Contraceptives Don't Cause Abortion

Explainer: No, Contraceptives Don't Cause Abortion

Misinformation about contraception is deadly. Just ask Evaline Chepkemol, a mother of three in Kenya’s rural Narok County—a place with one of the country’s highest maternal death rates. Chepkemol has encountered many women in her community who are fearful of contraceptives. “They have the belief that if you insert the family planning [device], you either lose the children or will never give birth again,” she told UNFPA, the United Nations sexual…