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Annabel Sowemimo

Annabel Sowemimo is a community sexual and reproductive health doctor and founder of non-profit Decolonising Contraception

Health & Families

Why are so many black women still dying in childbirth?

Abortions are for everyone – it’s time for fully inclusive services

Coronavirus is being used to roll back abortion rights by stealth

It is time that we as a society start to rethink how living with disability impacts the whole of sexual health and wellbeing

Sex and scoliosis: We need to talk about disability and intimacy

Stop shaming women for trying to buy the morning after pill

A call for better protection of abortion services and ‘buffer zones’ was rejected last year

I provide abortions. The UK doesn’t have it much better than the US

It’s ludicrous consumers are forced to use products in a tone which does not match theirs

A simple skin-tone plaster can be revolutionary for people of colour