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IFP president Velenkosini Fiki Hlabisa is seen during the swearing-in ceremony at the Good Hope Building of Parliament in Cape Town.
IFP president Velenkosini Fiki Hlabisa is seen during the swearing-in ceremony at the Good Hope Building of Parliament in Cape Town.
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The IFP said it doesn't believe "unrestricted access to abortion (pro-choice)" is in the best interests of a moral society. 

This comes as the party held a two-day national policy conference in Empangeni, KwaZulu-Natal, where the party adopted several draft policy documents to be ratified by its leadership after the Christmas period.

The party's draft policy on health said: "The conceptualisation of abortion as a form of contraception is ethically dubious, and of considerable danger to a population which is experiencing an Aids epidemic."

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