A secret pregnancy in the Comoros: One teen ’s story

MORONI, Comoros – Sara* was 17 when she found out she was pregnant. Living in a rural village in the Comoros, she carried the entire pregnancy in secret, and then gave birth in a hospital bathroom.“Our society does not accept to get pregnant out of wedlock,” she explained recently to UNFPA.“I was going out with a young man who was 20 years old,” she recalled. They rarely usedcondoms, she said.“My cycles were regular, and I was happy to calculate the day of ovulation to take precautions. But it was not effective.”
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