Is abortion legal in Sierra Leone?
Legal (limited)
Abortion is permitted on limited grounds such as a risk to health.
Sierra Leone is one of 70 countries classified “Legal (limited)” for abortion — 32% of the 220 with data.
Source
- Taken from
- Wikipedia: Abortion law
- Last checked
- 15 September 2026
- How it was classified
- Read directly from the source’s own table, without interpretation.
Nearby countries
- Guinea
- Legal (limited) Abortion is permitted on limited grounds such as a risk to health.
- Liberia
- Legal (limited) Abortion is permitted on limited grounds such as a risk to health.
- Guinea-Bissau
- Legal on request Abortion is available on request, subject to a gestational limit.
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Legal (limited) Abortion is permitted on limited grounds such as a risk to health.
- Senegal
- Illegal (with exceptions) Abortion is prohibited except to save the pregnant person's life.
- The Gambia
- Illegal (with exceptions) Abortion is prohibited except to save the pregnant person's life.
Other laws in Sierra Leone
- FGM Laws
- Specifically banned
A visual reference compiled from Wikipedia’s law-by-country articles, not legal advice. Laws change and summaries simplify — check a primary source before relying on anything here.