Demonstration of the increased safety of legal abortions (Romania)
The National Council for Women Society (NCWS) has concluded plans to present a bill that will seek to allow women who desire abortion to have a safe one instead of going to quacks.
While defending her position, National President of NCWS, Mrs. Ramatu Bala Usman, who spoke with The Guardian in Abuja, said contrary to widely held belief that such a bill would promote promiscuity, the bill, she explained, would provide qualitative healthcare to women who desire safe abortion.
Her words: "Five years ago, we were ignorant because we believed that promotion of abortion was going to promote promiscuity. But now, we know better that the aim is just to make services available to women who may not only desire abortion but for those who may have complications as a result of unsafe abortion carried out by quacks. We have resolved to generate a bill on abortion to be forwarded to the National Assembly very soon for passage.
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The conflict over abortion is not just limited to the United States, but the grounds of the debate differ between our nation and Nigeria. Where the grounds for the pro-life group’s argument in the United States are morals and religious ideas, in Nigeria the conflict is much more concrete: allowing abortions may lead to greater promiscuity. The NCWS, however, asserts that this is not the case, but anti-abortion legislation leads to unsafe alternatives. It remains to be seen whether an all-women’s lobbyist group can influence politics in Nigeria as much as a male contingent. This may prove to be a test of the amount of Misogyny in Nigeria.
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