Showing posts with label pregnancy. Show all posts
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Thursday, 26 April 2012

Legalise abortion youths call on government...

Young people seem to be calling for the government to legalise abortion and make such services available in public health centres, following shocking statistics from a report by local NGOs that at least 20 000 women die annually during illegal abortions and child birth.
In conversations the National Youth Development Trust (NYDT) had with young people on facebook, various solutions were suggested and were centred around ensuring an effective health delivery system and legalising abortion.  
“There's need for a realistic approach in dealing with it now that it is known that women opt to abort for one reason or the other,” said Clemence Leonard.
Bukhosi Moyo who suggested that legalizing abortion would be the solution, said that this isssue is now a matter of reality vs. principles. “Yes we have our own principles that are against abortion but what is the reality? It’s better to lose one than to lose both the mother and the child,” he said.