Comments on: Kenya: Reproductive Rights Bill Sparks Abortion Debate

By: joy

joy — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:38:27 +0000

abortion shd be legal, coz its the woman’s right to bodily self determination. whats the pint of bringing forth kids we cannot afford to take care? i mean if u smoked, altho u knew it was cancerous then contracted cancer cells growing in your lungs, shd we ignore and force you to keep it because u were defiant? of course no! we shd help u get rid of it to save your life. same to abortion, lets not force things that occur by accident. as long as it is done responsibly, i am pro child.

By: Janet

Janet — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:13:38 +0000

Abortion should remain illegal. If the claim is that pregnancy occurring as a result of rape should be terminated, then i think the target is wrong. The fetus has done no wrong. Nature simply took its course. It is the rapist who deserves to die but not the fetus. The other thing is safe and unsafe abortion. I think we also need to ask how safe the fetus will be whether a woman has access to safe abortion or not.

By: Muna Williams

Muna Williams — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 09:13:52 +0000

Abortion is killing. It is killing of an inocent life. In case of rape, the criminal is not the human being growing in the womb, but the rapist.

The Child in the womb of the mother should be given his or her own right to live. She or he is a Kenyan citizen.

Every human life starts at conception, is sacred, and it demands respect.

By: Elle

Elle — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:37:33 +0000

I am a woman and am pro-choice. I think the people who oppose this law have to ask, is the right to sexual and reproductive health for women a human right? If it is (and Kenya – the state, seemed to think so when it signed international commitments to promote these rights) then unsafe abortions ought to be stopped and the only way to do so is to make abortion services legal so that women can access them in safety. The question is no longer whether women abort. It is that they do so under very harmful circumstances because the law is prohibitive. Running away from abortion is like pretending teens don’t have sex.

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Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:12:50 +0000

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By: Elsie Oyoo

Elsie Oyoo — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:13:06 +0000

I think that abortion should remain illegal. Firtsly, the argument that we’re left behind by an increasingly liberal world cannot hold. If everyone were to decide to go to war, would Kenya also feel left out? secondly, there is the untold story of so-called legal and safe abortions. There are emotional, social and spiritual scars that no doctor, no matter how qualified can prevent that are caused by abortions. Attention should also be paid to the fact that in world history, legalising abortion and euthanasia are linked to other acts of lack of respect for human life e.g. genocides or holocausts. Issues of sanctity of life are very inter-related and who is to know where to draw the line?

By: Women’s Health in the News II : Womens Health

Women’s Health in the News II : Womens Health — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:04:34 +0000

[...] Kenya: Reproductive rights bill sparks abortion debate – “A bill proposed by Kenyan women’s rights groups, which would make it easier to have an abortion, has re-sparked the debate about legalizing abortion.” More about African women’s health for my readers. [...]

By: Jillian York

Jillian York — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:47:07 +0000

“It proposes, for instance, that a statement by a pregnant woman or any other proof that her pregnancy is due to sexual assault, rape, defilement or incest guarantee a legal abortion.”

A step in the right direction for women. Although I’m ardently pro-choice, I do understand some issues surrounding the debate, but not this one. No woman who has been raped should be forced to go through a second traumatic experience.