AFRICA: POLICE RAIDED A MARIE STOPES INTERNATIONAL ABORTION CLINIC IN LAGOS NIGERIA ON 21st MAY 2019, APPREHENDING AN ABORTIONIST: ALLEGED NEWS. [1] and [2]
The abortion clinic receives funding from the United Kingdom and other foreign partners, wired through Marie Stopes International: Alleged News. [1]
A coalition of Civil Society Organizations [CSOs] in Nigeria has requested the federal government to expedite action and clamp down on clinics and organizations seeking to promote abortion and other unsafe practices that are inimical to reproductive health in the country: Alleged News. [1]
War against children
Alongside the Foundation for African Cultural Heritage [FACH], the CSOs averred that abortion is war against children, warning that a nation that allows its children to be killed is tottering on extinction: Alleged News. [1]
Abortion is against Nigerian law
Sections 17, 33 of the 1999 constitution; sections
228, 229, 230 and 238 of the criminal code [with their equivalent in the penal code] and sections 3, 4 and 17 of the Child Rights Act enacted in 2003 outlawed abortion in Nigeria, prescribing sundry imprisonment and life sentences for offenders; Alleged News . [1]
Dr Obi Ideh
According to Dr Obi Ideh, the Director of Foundation for African Cultural Heritage, "The country should be children friendly by being pro-life which ultimately safeguards the innocence of children and the lives of young women procuring abortion daily.
Abortion exposes them to materials that damage character formation and inner development. It's important for our society to end up with children who are citizens with self control and not driven by appetite that shouldn't drive them before the right time", Alleged News. [1]
Dr Ideh alleged that Marie Stopes had been lobbying some groups in order to ensure abortion thrives in Nigeria so as to make certain foreign interests fester, Alleged News. [1]
Deputy Director Achike Chude
Deputy Director of Joint Action Front, Mr Achike Chude, observed that the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry rakes in much money from contraceptive pills and injections; Alleged News. [1]
Mr Chude further noted that from the 1970's to date in Europe, 26 million babies have been aborted and now Europe cannot replace itself again, Alleged News. [1] Mr Chude observed that Canada is taking in migrants in order to replace its population, Alleged News. [1]
Dr Nkechie Asogwa
Dr Nkechie Asogwa of Doctor's Health Initiative, said that aside from the risk of self destruction and death that abortion poses to victims, abortion also triggers psychological trauma which may be difficult to overcome throughout life; Alleged News. [1]
Director General Jerry Okwuosa
Director General Jerry Okwuosa of Project for Human Development disclosed that several studies have shown that a lady who aborts on or before the age of 18 is likely to develop breast cancer later in life, Alleged News. [1]
Abortion is murder simpliciter
The coalition of CSOs in a statement released to journalists stressed that abortion is murder simpliciter, Alleged News. [1]
The CSO's further affirmed that Nigerian anti-abortion laws conform to the religious, cultural and philosophical convictions of the average Nigerian on the street today, Alleged News. [1]
Call to expel Marie Stopes from Nigeria
The CSO's asked the federal government to expel Marie Stopes and called on President Muhammadu Buhari-administration to follow other African countries in expelling Marie Stopes from the Nigeria; Alleged News. [1]
Marie Stopes has no respect
The group stated that Marie Stopes has no respect for the religious, cultural and philosophical convictions of the Nigerian people, Alleged News. [1]
The CSOs queried why Marie Stopes, a foreign NGO, should come to Nigeria to kill Nigerian babies, Alleged News. [1]
"Our babies are our greatest resources. Every life is precious in pure sight," the group allegedly said. [1]
Stop promoting abortion
The CSOs further called on the government to take concrete steps to stop the Federal Ministry of Health, Nigeria, IPAS, Planned Parenthood Federation of Nigeria, United Nation Population Funds [UNFPA], Department for International Development [DFID], United State Agency for International Development [USAID] from promoting abortion in Nigeria, Alleged News. [1]
WHY NOT SIGN THE PETITION?
https://www.citizengo.org/en-af/lf/170400-stop-marie-stopes-abortion-activities-nigeria[1] Police raid on Marie Stopes: CSOs ask FG to Clampdown on Abortion Clinics: Alleged News
https://www.newdiplomatng.com/2019/05/28/police-raid-on-marie-stopes-csos-ask-fg-to-clampdown-on-abortion-clinics/
[2] Stop Marie Stopes abortion activities in Nigeria: Alleged News
https://www.citizengo.org/en-af/lf/170400-stop-marie-stopes-abortion-activities-nigeria
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