Reproductive Health

Women are dying from backstreet abortions. But reforms to Malawi's 157-year-old laws are stuck By Lameck Masina

Women are dying from backstreet abortions. But reforms to Malawi's 157-year-old laws are stuck By Lameck Masina

Blantyre, Malawi — David Minyatso holds the voter registration card of his late wife, Selina.

The last time he saw her, she had just found out she was pregnant with their fourth child.

"She told me she was feeling symptoms of pregnancy. She left for her home village two days later to visit her parents," 36-year-old Minyatso said, standing in the doorway of their thatched-roof home in Kaseleka village, his daughters playing in the dirt yard outside.

Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead--My Life Story Hardcover By Cecile Richards and Lauren Peterson

Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead--My Life Story Hardcover By Cecile Richards and Lauren Peterson

From Cecile Richards—president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund for more than a decade, daughter of the late Governor Ann Richards, featured speaker at the Women’s March on Washington, and a “heroine of the resistance” (Vogue)—comes a story about learning to lead and make change, based on a lifetime of fighting for women’s rights and social justice.

Cecile Richards has been an activist since she was taken to the principal’s office in seventh grade for wearing an…