Who is to blame?
Chilling figures of unsafe abortions announced by the health minister Dr Bernard Haufiku are a cause for grave concern and brings to the fore the complexity and intertwining social challenges we see as contributors to this national calamity.
Indeed it is a situation that needs urgent attention and interventions that require rolling out national surveys to understand the root cause of this sorry state of affairs… if we are to prescribe the correct solutions. It is baffling that 7 335 sane women juggled with their lives and aborted their pregnancies.
This problem is no doubt deeper than our reasoning and Haufiku must seriously consider hiring psychologists to understand the vicarious desperation that is driving the women to abort.
Of grave concern is the national expanse of this predicament and hence the need for the nation to press the CTA (Call to Action) button. The magnitude of this problem calls for a united front of civic, civil and spiritual think tanks. No doubt the situation brings to the fore a clear indication of the psychological trauma that Namibian women are going through and a glaring lack of respect for human life from a religious perspective. Their actions could be fanned by social lacks and pressures and hence the need for experts to be part of the solutions.
The government needs to walk a thousand miles in the shoes of these women who will choose to abort and not push the babies they would have conceived for the government to understand their actions. While some women might have aborted for selfish reasons, others did so for genuine reasons. Men duck and dive after impregnating women and do nothing towards the upkeep of their children. Uncles rape nieces and families choose to protect them and not the rape victim. Politicians opt to have the votes and leave unlicensed shebeens to operate where innocent girls are raped and abused by patrons drinking at their homes while their parents are drunk.
Government must act now and save the millions of dollars used to flush out the wombs of these women. Legalise abortion now and end this mayhem.
Indeed it is a situation that needs urgent attention and interventions that require rolling out national surveys to understand the root cause of this sorry state of affairs… if we are to prescribe the correct solutions. It is baffling that 7 335 sane women juggled with their lives and aborted their pregnancies.
This problem is no doubt deeper than our reasoning and Haufiku must seriously consider hiring psychologists to understand the vicarious desperation that is driving the women to abort.
Of grave concern is the national expanse of this predicament and hence the need for the nation to press the CTA (Call to Action) button. The magnitude of this problem calls for a united front of civic, civil and spiritual think tanks. No doubt the situation brings to the fore a clear indication of the psychological trauma that Namibian women are going through and a glaring lack of respect for human life from a religious perspective. Their actions could be fanned by social lacks and pressures and hence the need for experts to be part of the solutions.
The government needs to walk a thousand miles in the shoes of these women who will choose to abort and not push the babies they would have conceived for the government to understand their actions. While some women might have aborted for selfish reasons, others did so for genuine reasons. Men duck and dive after impregnating women and do nothing towards the upkeep of their children. Uncles rape nieces and families choose to protect them and not the rape victim. Politicians opt to have the votes and leave unlicensed shebeens to operate where innocent girls are raped and abused by patrons drinking at their homes while their parents are drunk.
Government must act now and save the millions of dollars used to flush out the wombs of these women. Legalise abortion now and end this mayhem.
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