by Khadijat Kareem

September 28th is recognised as international safe abortion day, it is a day to promote access to legal and safe abortion. This year’s theme is “uncertain times call for diverse, collective actions on many fronts”. This year’s theme calls on those who support women’s rights and gender justice to speak and demand for accountability.

Access to safe abortions is one of the factors identified as critical to achieving SDG 3.1, the reduction of maternal mortality rates. According to a United Nations report in 2013, unsafe abortions are a “leading cause of maternal deaths”. The report further warned that “it is likely that the numbers of unsafe abortion will continue to increase unless women’s access to safe abortion and contraception – and support to empower women (including their freedom to decide whether and when to have a child) – are put in place and further strengthened.”

One out of every seven global maternal deaths occurs in Nigeria. Nigeria’s maternal death ratio was estimated at 512 deaths per 100,000 births each year. The NDHS report also stated that for every 1,000 live births, 5 women die during pregnancy, after childbirth and 2 months after childbirth.

SDG goal 3.1, to reduce maternal mortality ratios to less than 70 per 100,000 live births by 2030, currently seems hard-to-reach for Nigeria and unsafe abortions, among other things, is a factor impeding Nigeria’s progress.

Abortion is illegal in Nigeria, permitted only when it is medically recommended to save a woman’s life. Abortion is a felony, and though governed by two separate laws in Nigeria, one for Northern Nigeria contained in the penal code and the other from Southern Nigeria contained in the criminal code, the punishments are similar. Up to a fourteen year jail term for a doctor who performs abortion and 7 years for the woman on which it is performed.

Continue reading: https://www.dataphyte.com/latest-reports/health/unsafe-abortions-makes-achieving-sdg-3-1-harder-for-nigeria-and-its-women/

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It's about time the National Assembly of this country made laws to ensure that women who are not ready to make babies get rid of their feti in the healthiest possible way.

Pictures of my usual visits to the medical hostel to see my Nkechi years ago are still fresh on my mind.
Despite being versed with the knowledge of clinical sciences and medicine, her roommate bled for 2 weeks straight after patronizing a quack to "flush the baby" of a former boyfriend who raped her.

As a 400 level MB.BS student, my Nkechi was still a virgin preserving her hymen for handsome N3TRAL and the incident terrified her to the extent that the day I deflowered her, I used double raincoat dipped in olive oil to penetrate my greatest aspiration as a man.

10 years later my Nkechi don already born three. Her womb fertile pass the land of Canaan, if you touch am she don carry .. Her friend who suffered from a bad abortion was still barren. It took millions of naira after a decade of marriage for her friend to conceive.
Thank God she's blessed with babies today.

Let's make abortion legal today, to save lives and protect our girls!

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N3TRAL:
It's about time the National Assembly of this country made laws to ensure that women who are not ready to make babies get rid of their feti in the healthiest possible way.

Pictures of my usual visits to the medical hostel to see my Nkechi years ago are still fresh on my mind.
Despite being versed with the knowledge of clinical sciences and medicine, her roommate bled for 2 weeks straight after patronizing a quack to "flush the baby" of a former boyfriend who raped her.

As a 400 level MB.BS student, my Nkechi was still a virgin preserving her hymen for handsome N3TRAL and the incident terrified her to the extent that the day I deflowered her, I used double raincoat dipped in olive oil to penetrate my greatest aspiration as a man.

10 years later my Nkechi don already born three. Her womb fertile pass the land of Canaan, if you touch am she don carry .. Her friend who suffered from a bad abortion was still barren. It took millions of naira after a decade of marriage for her friend to conceive.
Thank God she's blessed with babies today.

Let's make abortion legal today, to save lives and protect our girls!

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Bro. With the way you are going about Nkechi Nkechi of lately, what's going on with you?

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