COMMENT | SIS Forum calls on the Women, Family and Community Development Ministry and the Health Ministry to strengthen public understanding of reproductive healthcare following findings that fewer than half of women know abortion is legal in Malaysia under certain circumstances.

A recently launched SIS Forum study, “Bodily Autonomy in Malaysia: Perceptions and Experiences Across Women's Life Stages”, found that awareness of abortion law remains alarmingly low.

Fewer than half of women (45 percent) know that therapeutic abortion is legal under certain circumstances, while one in five (21 percent) believe it is entirely illegal.

These findings demonstrate that...