Everything in order

Journalist/muckraker/sleuth for hire Paul McNally sends this photograph he snapped of a poster providing information on a legal way to give up the care of your child.

This is what remains of a poster stuck to a streetpole outside a friend's house in a relatively wealthy area. The street connects the University of Cape Town to it's nearest railway station and is used primarily by educated and relatively well off students. The poster used to have strips at the bottom that you could tear off, with contact details of the doctor. Some herbalist fliers that I have posted here before also offer abortions, with taglines like "30 min, no pain". I'm not sure how legitimate DR. Samuel is*, but the herbalists are definitely not regulated.

Abortion in South Africa is legal and does not require the woman to ask for another person's consent for the operation. Abortions are free in state hospitals, but have a waiting list that can be anything up to a month long. Private clinics that offer safe abortions (Maria Stopes) cost anything from R1600. Both these options include counselling before and after.

I phoned DR. Samuel, who runs an office/clinic in Cape Town city center. He offers medical abortion (pills). If the woman is 12 weeks pregnant it will cost R700. If she waits another month before going to DR. Samuel it will cost upwards of R1000. He offered no objection to my hypothetical girlfriend waiting until she was 16 weeks pregnant. 12 weeks is the oldest a fetus is allowed to be aborted unless:

(i) the continued pregnancy would pose a risk of injury to the woman's physical or mental health; or (ii) there exists a substantial risk that the fetus would suffer from a severe physical or mental abnormality; or (iii) the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest; or (iv) the continued pregnancy would significantly affect the social or economic circumstances of the woman.

http://www.info.gov.za/acts/1996/a92-96.pdf

*DR. Samuel did say that his service was legal