Abortion and it's malcontents

SA: Safe Abortion
LTFP: long term family planning
STFP: short term family planning
VSC: vasectomy
MAOOC: medical abortion out of centre

This is me presiding over a strategic plan that will involve the delivery of 1.2m abortions in Vietnam in 2015. 


The smile is not connected to the plan, but it is indicative of the office culture in which organisations working on reproductive health including safe abortion find themselves.


I have been trying to write about it for a while but am unsure how best to position it. Coming from Belfast, the issue of abortion is not approached easily and this photo is likely to be seen a highly offensive to the pro-life lobby. I offer it not to antagonise, but to create a fuller understanding of how complex the various activities of human beings make this world.


Apologies to those that are offended, and hope that opportunity is afforded to discuss the issue.