Imagine what it would be like if you weren’t able to make your own decisions. Take a minute to step into the life of a young woman who doesn’t have the same power to plan to make choices as we do in the UK. Where will your life take you?
Imagine what it would be like if you weren’t able to make your own decisions. Take a minute to step into the life of a young woman who doesn’t have the same power to plan to make choices as we do in the UK. Where will your life take you?
You are 16, you are good at science and want to be a nurse when you're older. Your parents want you to marry a boy who's a bit older than you but he's a friend of the family and you get on quite well.
Marry him | Don't marry him |
Your new husband wants as many children as possible, but no one has told you anything about where babies come from. What should you do?
Use contraception | Let nature take its course |
You are now 17, your original husband-to-be married one of your friends. Now an older man has paid your father for your hand in marriage and no one has asked what you think.
Marry him | Don't marry him |
You are now 17. Your birth had complications because you were so young and you were forced to leave school. Your friends are all asking when you're going to have another baby, but one of them mentions medicine that can help you wait to have another baby.
Ask about this medicine | Let nature take its course |
Sorry! You've never learned about sex in school and you don't even know what this word means.
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Sorry! When you try not to marry him your father throws you out. You try to get a job but can't so you return home and marry the older man.
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After speaking to your friend you decide to go to the health worker who helped you give birth, but she cannot give you anything without your husband's permission. She tells your husband you visited and he asks you why.
I want to wait before more kids | I'm in pain from the birth |
Your husband doesn't think you need to go to the doctor even though you're in pain. He says it's important you have another baby and is worried about what other people will think.
Abstain | Let nature take its course |
Your husband doesn't understand why you want to stop having children. He says it's not your decision to decide the size of your family. You hear about another clinic 10 miles away.
Abstain | Visit the clinic |
You now have another baby, however this one dies due to complications from giving birth too soon. Your husband is eager to try again.
Abstain | Let nature take its course |
Your husband is impatient and wants to have sex with you now, no matter what.
Run away | Let it happen |
You walk all day to get to the clinic and finally get contraception and hide it. Eventually your husband finds it, accuses you of being unfaithful and throws you out. Your family won't take you and you up begging in the street, with little to no food for your child.
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You have another baby and after this one you can't control when you need the toilet and are very sick. You think about visiting the family planning clinic 10 miles away.
Too shy to go | Visit the clinic |
Your family send you back to your husband. You left school so you can't support yourself or you baby. You end up begging on the street with little to no food for your child.
These women desperately need access to contraception - they need the same rights that women have here. They also need to be educated and empowered to be more able to decide when and if to get married and delay their pregnancies until they're ready.
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You continue to have child after child. By the time you are 30 years old you've given birth 9 times and 8 survive and now have had 2 miscarriages. You are ill and so are they. You do your best and you love your family but there isn't enough food and you worry every day.
These women desperately need access to contraception - they need the same rights that women have here. They also need to be educated and empowered to be more able to decide when and if to get married and delay their pregnancies until they're ready.
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You walk for an entire day but you reach the clinic where they give you injectable contraception to spread out your births. By the time you are 30 you have 3 children and have just enough food for all at them. Life isn't easy, but you love your family.
These women desperately need access to contraception - they need the same rights that women have here. They also need to be educated and empowered to be more able to decide when and if to get married and delay their pregnancies until they're ready.
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