Africa: Law Ahead of Opinion? Abortion Law and Public Morality in 38 African Countries
Where the law has gone furthest, it has moved well ahead of what the public morally accepts. Abstract Abortion law has been relaxed faster in Africa than anywhere else since 2000, but whether opinion has moved with it was unknowable before Afrobarometer’s Round 10 surveys of 2024/2025, which asked 50,961 people in 38 countries whether…