The International reproductive rights group, Ipas, has said Nigerian archaic laws on abortion have contributed to the increasing number of maternal deaths that occur yearly around the world, adding that abortion is one of the leading causes of maternal deaths and morbidity in Nigeria.
Making the assertion at a three-day media training workshop on “Women’s Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights” organised by Ipas in Abuja, Acting Country Director of Ipas, Ms. Hauwa Shekarau, a lawyer, said that the training is aimed at getting the citizens better informed on issues of sexual and reproductive health and rights of women.
She further said that every woman has the right to safe reproductive health choices, which includes safe abortion care, adding that abortion laws have failed to save the lives of women due to their restrictive nature.
Shekarau said: “The abortion law in Nigeria is restrictive and it is only permitted to save the life of the woman if she is in a danger. But those that do not fall under this legal restriction are left to their own devices. Also the cost of carrying out this procedure is high, and those who are not economically empowered resort to quacks, making unsafe abortion the most silent and persistent cause of maternal mortality in Nigeria.”
Consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the University Teaching Hospital, Gwagwlada, Dr Godwin Akaba, said unsafe abortion could lead to bleeding, infections and infertility.
He added that unsafe abortion contributes at least 13 per cent to maternal deaths, adding that more than 456,000 unsafe abortions are done yearly in Nigeria.
He added that unsafe abortion contributes at least 13 per cent to maternal deaths, adding that more than 456,000 unsafe abortions are done yearly in Nigeria.
Akaba further said lack of family planning tools is one of the leading causes of maternal mortality, as it results into unintended pregnancy, which could lead to unsafe abortion.
” The magnitude of maternal mortality and morbidity represents perhaps the greater social justice of our time,” Akaba said, adding “ our ability to address these preventable causes of maternal mortality is but a symptom, a tragic symptom of a larger social injustice of discrimination.”
Chairman, Association for Advancement of Family Planning, (AAFP), Dr Ejike Orji, said that abortion deaths have become the second leading cause of maternal deaths in Nigeria, stressing the need for the individualisation of family planning (FP) services in Nigeria.
culled from Ngrguardiannews.com
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DeleteI believe abortions should be legalized that way it would safe for ladies to decide what they want for their unborn fetus instead of the society dictating to their how their lives should be and also Abortion should be free in all govt owned hospitals that way the rate maternal mortality would be reduced to the bearest minimum
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Meaning most doctors in Nigeria are quacks abi?...
ReplyDeleteAbortion is the easiest surgery in medicine...I can perform it sef...
Do you even think before you post your comment?
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If u don't understand,kindly scroll up and re-read please
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ReplyDeleteanytime i think about how abortion is done, i cringe!
Deleteis it the opening of the viginal with that two mouth iron, is it how dey start packing it out and it looks like they are packing your life in yoir heart beat, abi na d pain??
smtcheeeewwwww, thanks to God almighty that i have a son
just because useless girls want to cover shame,most women dont love children as they claim,they onlu want to have kids so a man can be with them,imagine killing your own child,i dey fear girls wey don do abortion,they can kill in secret.
DeleteI wish I had convinced one lady to leave her baby some years ago...now wen I look @ my nephew now in ss2 who wld av been d child's age mate,I think about it with regret...d fear of parents,friends,everyone dat'l be disappointed in her n dropping out of school led to her decision...as smallies,noone was ready to be a parent den
ReplyDeleteI'm not in support of making abortion legal. As it stands,even with it being illegal yet d rate and occurrence is high suffice to say with it being made legal,abortion wld thus be done on daily basis.
ReplyDeleteGood for dem! Everytin boils down to wat dey feed their brains with! Sex sex sex sex!
ReplyDeleteGod should have mercy!
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Thank God my family are not among that list though.....
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Hmmm @ the number.
ReplyDeleteDon't be surprised hon....after the Anonymous Post & with the way guys n ladies are going about now...the number should be More. It's a crazy world!
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ReplyDeleteJesus Christ, what a world... Lord av mercy
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Pls help me ask dem oh, or dey just assumed d figures
DeleteGo and read d anonymous post to see these figures are even conservative . I hv been very depressed since that post. Receiving counselling at d moment. The heart of man eh...
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ReplyDeleteI had six abortions. .....now I got married this year March After much plee to God he answered my prayers on August. ..am preggy now for dh....may God forgive me...I feel so dirty. ....bit my advice to girls..D n C is the best...stop self medication. ..it damages the womb....or pls stop abortion you u ve high bp once u ve delay with conception. ..tanx...
ReplyDeleteTo me all na abortion!
DeleteI thank God for you!
Yes abortion is safest...but with a good doctor...
DeleteEven though abortion is wrong, many people have reasons for doing it. I just wish unmarried people can just abstain from sex so as to prevent all these. It's well.
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ReplyDeleteBlood of God!
But i hv bn wanting to ask wot if dere ws nothing lyk abortion....hmmmmm
Na wa...o how do they count it?
ReplyDeleteThis is excluding the ones that hide the pregnancy and then induce birth at about 20something weeks at home,alone.
ReplyDeleteAnd strangely,married couples commit the most abortions in my own opinion.
Married couples that felt they were not ready for kids or more kids... or the ones that want to feel like Angels on their wedding day there by terminating a pregnancy few days before their wedding should never judge a single girl for taking a similar way out!
Rip to the soul of every desperate,naive girl that died alone on the slab of an abortionist,abandoned by the men that "allegedly" loved them.
RIP to hannah a very good family friend, too beautiful, she lost her life through abortion
DeleteLai lai hi lai lai.. Lord av mercy!!
ReplyDeleteKwdukwa nke bu unsafe abortions. ?
ReplyDeletekeduzi nke di safe.?
Anyway wetin concern vulture wit barbing saloon
naso prick sweet reach ni? why not practice safesex. nawao
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ReplyDeleteWe really should be thinking about legalizing abortion. Nigerians will be fight any attempt at legalization yet we all know the people (women) aborting aren't ghost or martians but our very own sisters, daughters, wives and mothers.
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Nah. We r not legalizing it. Imagine what the number wud be if legalised. No be UK dey protest against its legalisation some weeks back. U think they didn't know what they were doing. A beg, let those that can't abstain tread carefully. To avoid stories that touch
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DeleteWhy murder an innocent child in the name of abortion. Please they shouldn't encourage abortion.
ReplyDeleteGod please forgive me last week I had a medical abortion. I was just few weeks gone so a friend told me about a drug that it works, I went to the pharmacy with my boyfriend took the drug,had painful cramps and it all came out as period. My boyfriend cried his eyes out that I was even the one consoling him as if na him do am. Since then our love has been stronger as to him I have sacrificed a lot for him. I went for scan and the womb was empty in good condition.
ReplyDeleteyour nonsense boyfriend was crying,??
Deletei pity you cos you seem so daft to me!
let him keep decieving you till you lost your womb, men no send you oh.... you better wisen up
Pls tell her... If he luvs u he would nt allow u ve an abortion.
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ReplyDeleteMost of these are committed by housewives. The rate of abortion amongst my married friends these days...... Hmmm! Only God will save us.
ReplyDeleteI believe its high time Nigeria legalized abortion, it will prevent a whole lot of unwanted deaths that some girls go through while trying to do abortion illegally. People have different reasons for abortions and i am of the opinion that if u are not psychologically, emotionally and financially ready to have a child then u should not bring a baby into this world...becos we are tired of people coming to sdk to beg for baby things
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