Uganda is No Utopia for Women

There's a really good dispatch on abortion in Uganda from Women's eNews today:

Abortion is illegal in Uganda. It is also widely practiced, as [Nulu] Lwanga well knew. A woman in her neighborhood had recently bled to death at the hands of a traditional healer who had unsuccessfully tried to end her pregnancy with poisonous herbs.

Asked if she told her husband about her predicament, Lwanga just laughed. "These African men, they just want to have babies, babies," she explained through a translator. "They don't want to be responsible for them."

Typical.