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Translations:Dakar/57/en
Abortion law in Senegal is "restrictive and unclear."[1] According to the Senegalese Criminal Code, abortion is completely illegal. However, the Code of Medical Ethics allows an abortion to be performed if at least three doctors verify that the abortion is medically necessary to save the life of a woman. The legal proceedings for an abortion are supposedly very lengthy. In 2005, Senegal ratified the Maputo Protocol, which requires states to guarantee abortion access in cases of sexual assault, rape, incest, endangerment to physical or mental health or risk to the mother's life.[2] However, the reality for nearly all Senegalese women remains that they must obtain an underground abortion or to leave the country for an abortion.