Abortion and Kenya!

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Abortion is illegal in Kenya. It is something of risk and danger in Kenya. It is something that has brought about a lot of issues in Kenya. Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy. It happens these days mostly because teenagers have started having sex at an early age and end up with many complications thereafter. Most of them really do not have a choice, others opt for abortion so that they get rid of the child before their parents find out, the others decide on keeping the baby but have no choice but to look for somewhere else on the streets to live, and the other percentage remaining, opt for suicide. This shows the dangers it is inflicting on the lives of Kenyans on a daily basis.

At first i did not support the abortion factor, but come to think of it, abortion, is not something that should be left for the church, or any other person to decide, except the mother herself! An article in the Standard newspaper, which you can view if you follow the link below:- http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/InsidePage.php?id=1144018047&cid=4

is a very disturbing article, the church, first of all is the most senior member in following the laws of Moses, and the abortion clause would not have been brought about if it were not for them. The Priests are now the ones who are misbehaving, and several have now been accused of child sexual molestation, leave alone with the children, even the nuns! In the article, there is a section that states that there was a report from the United States that a victim was paid $100,000 (about 7.6 million shillings) not to report their case of rape. Honestly, if the church was really committed as to stopping abortion, would they really go that far? These incidents have led to several things, such as abortion taking place IN the church. I support abortion only by word of the mother, but if you are a nun, and you have committed that sin, what is the point of aborting, and committing another sin in the eyes of God? What do you think?

They say that abortion is here to stay, and it does not matter if it is legal or not, the question is how safe is it? Other statistics of the World Health Organization say that annually 67,000 women die because of unsafe abortion, 17,600 are from East Africa. One more thing that I discovered as I was doing my research was that in a country like Mozambique, abortion is legal any time any place as long as the woman is pregnant it can be done for any reason at all. If this happened in Kenya, God knows what would have happened. The death rate comparison between Kenya and Mozambique shows that more deaths of children under the age of 1 die in Mozambique more than in Kenya.

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To conclude, i think that for abortion to take place, it should be in the say of the mother. No one else, experiences the pain, what if the mother was pregnant because of rape? Would you restrict her to proceed with the abortion? She is the one that experienced the pain, so what good is there in telling her that she can not choose to do what she wants with her body? I mean its not like its your body! What surprises me the most is that most of the ministers, that are men, are the ones complaining so much about how abortion should remain illegal, most of the time you do not see men being the ones who take care of the children, rather its the women. To me it is rather very ironic that they are the ones complaining so much and they have nothing to do with it.

This is my take on abortion, what about yours?