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About 300,000 abortions are performed in Kenya annually. An estimated 20,000 women and girls are hospitalized with related complications. This figure translates into daily abortion rate of about 800 procedures. Those were statistics in a report presented to the Kenya Medical Association by the pro-life organizations in a conference in Nairobi.
Kenya is on the way to legalize killing of the unborn babies if the draft law passes in the July 2nd referendum. Kenya will then join South Africa, Tunisia and Cape Verde.
The proponents of safe legal termination of pregnancy base their arguments on the maternal mortality due to unsafe abortions and the woman’s right to choose either to carry the pregnancy to the end or not.
The battle continuous...
The Church and other pro-life organizations are categorically strong against abortion. Nonetheless, the latter advocates for the use of contraceptives for both men and women as a means to avoid unnecessary conceptions. Kenya alone spends 13 million dollars on contraceptives par year, reliable sources disclosed.
Massive propaganda and funding
Who exactly funds this campaign? Never mind that abortion is illegal in Kenya. Pro-abortion organizations based Overseas are the vanguard in changing Kenya’s cultural reticence to killing unborn babies. They use enticing promotions like ‘maternal health’, ‘comprehensive Family Planning’, ‘Marie Stopes’ etc. In the name of empowering women, improving health conditions and preserving environment from overpopulation they receive outsized budgets from multilateral agencies. The NGO consensus holds that most of the problems in the developing world can be solved with more abortions.
Whatever that goes on in these organizations only God knows. But if you want to know what goes on in those abortion clinics, ask the victim. Always, for one to know about a product, ask the consumer.
Today it is not only the killing of the unborn. That’s not enough! It is also the interference with the natural menstrual flow. Not enough! It is the prevention of implantation after fertilization. And again not enough! It is blocking of the blastocyst from getting implanted in the uterine lining. This is called an abortifacient procedure or in other words, ‘menstrual regulation’. It is similar to what is known as ‘dilation and curettage (D&C) in the US. In Kenya, it can be performed as an office or clinic procedure. Nobody knows how many abortions occur hidden in this procedure.
According to the United Nations’ statistics, Kenya records a 40 percent documented schoolgirl pregnancies that end in abortion.
Abortion then is a household terminology, act and procedure. A parent ‘advices’ her or his daughter, a brother or sister ‘advices’ his or her sister, an uncle or untie ‘advices’ his or her niece, a teacher ‘advices’ his or her pupil or student etc. Hence, ‘advices’ are all over!
Does abortion solve any problem?
It is the killing of a tree by plucking its leaves away! Abortion presupposes the presence of a problem which it tries to solve. Some pro-lifers have it that educating men on contraceptives and when to have conjugal affairs is the key importance in reducing the unwanted pregnancy cases. But what is ‘unwanted’ may someday turn ‘wanted’!
What could this ‘unwanted’ pregnancy be? Could it be that the baby is in the wrong place; hence, the medical introduction of the test-tube-babies? Could it mean that its hour wasn’t premeditated upon; hence, considered persona non grata? Does the world’s economic crisis threatens the place of the unborn; hence, ‘unwanted’? Or probably it is the societal material competition? And, will legalizing abortion make all babies ‘wanted’?
Yes! Physically, the child will be out and dead. But complications in abortion related issues will not escape the victims (girl/woman, man and the ‘specialist’). Reading and hearing from some of the victims, guilt is the superior and life-long effect of abortion. And at times, it is accompanied by other more psycho-physio complications. Such as: uncontrolled bleeding, tear in cervix or uterus, smelly uterus, infections, breast cancer (estrogen increases in pregnancy leading to enlargement of breasts. Terminating this progress may result into the growth of cancerous cells in the breasts), incomplete abortion where surgical materials may remain inside the womb, later miscarriages, and the list is endless.
Others like Prof Pinker Steven, lecturer of Psychology at the august Massacheutte Institute of Technology believe strongly that babies (in the womb and extra-womb) are not people. This is because, “babies don’t have the ability to reflect…, to form and savor plans for the future, to dread death and to express the choice not to die.”
It is true that infants’ level of thinking is at the lowest. But rationality, that which characterizes humans from the rest of primates, is present in the infants, though very docile. Infants are capable of one day using their faculty of reason and even some day, dread death.
Many years ago before the invention of sonogram, before people like Lenart Nilsson took stunning photos of unborn child, the latter was defined as a ‘blob of cells’ and not equated to humanness. Today, however, medical technology has given us the opportunity to actually see and hear the unborn, and monitor its growth till maturity.
Pro-life championess in the Church
The Catholic Church hails life at all levels unborn, infancy, youth, adult and old age. Life should not be terminated at any stage of human development at whatever cost. No abortion, infanticide and euthanasia of any kind. The greatest proponent in this is Mother Teresa of Calcutta. She started an orphanage of children whose parents once meditated to abort.
For her, abortion has “portrayed the greatest gift, a child, as a competitor, an intrusion and an inconvenience. It has sawn violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationship.” And that it has “pitted mothers against their children, and women against men.”
Abortion is the destroyer of peace and serenity. The peaceful world of the baby is interfered with and itself, mercilessly killed. That inside world is violently ruined! Same is our outside world. The peaceful world in which we live faces destructions, killings, interferences, and shedding of tears. It’s a daily abortion that the world experiences.
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