Yay! Imo State governor, Chief Rochas
Okorocha, has just signed into law a bill which,
among other things, permits women to procure
an abortion when they need it. The bill was
sponsored by the Majority Leader and Imo state
house member representing Ahiazu Mbaise
state constituency, Mrs. Ihuoma Adekunle, the
law is to be cited as “Imo State of Nigeria,
Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Law
Number 12 of 2012”.
According to Vanguard , under the new law,
every woman in Imo State shall "have the right
to enjoy reproductive rights, including rights to
medical abortion in cases of sexual assault,
rape, incest and where the continued pregnancy
endangers the life or the physical, mental,
psychological or emotional health of the
mother."
The law also stipulates that “every woman shall
have the right to take decisions about her
health needs and requirements.” The law was
very specific that a woman “shall have the right
to determine the processes concerning
reproduction in her body.”
Okorocha also approved that every woman
should have a right to health, which should be
understood to mean enjoyment of the highest
level of physical, mental and social well-being
and healthcare services.
These provisions include everything relating to
family planning.
While this is amazing and welcome news to me,
it's no surprise there are those woman haters
for whom it is the end of the world. The
Catholic Medical Practitioners Association,
through their chairman, Dr. Phillip Njemanze,
has reacted angrily to the law, arguing that “the
law is anti-God, dehumanizing and totally
unacceptable to the association.”
Hear him, “The law is devastating. With its
signing into law by Governor Okorocha,
abortion has been legalized in the state and
anybody, just anybody can now ask for abortion
as a right in the state.”
While recalling that the National Assembly had
earlier rejected the bill, especially as it was
against humanity, Njemanze reasoned that the
law would encourage human egg trafficking.
For people like Njemanze, women are
nincompoops that cannot take decisions
concerning their own body and health. If a
woman decides to sell her own eggs, how is that
your concern? Who gets these young woman
who need abortion pregnant, is it not randy old
men who continue to rape and take advantage
of young women?
Most importantly, is a clean healthy abortion
not better than a quack procedure that will put
the life and future reproductive health of a
woman at risk?
What's your attitude to this 'abortion law'? Are
you for or against it? And why?

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Source, i think its old news and has already been abrogated

Thank God 4 Rochas, so d only good thing he will do to Imo people is to legalise abortion. Wow! Welcome to bleeping haven, now that d lincence is given 4 abortion, public and free bleeping should also b legalised. Nonsense.