SHOULD ABORTION BE LEGALIZED?
MY TAKE ON PLANS TO LEGALIZE THE SAFE ABORTION BILL IN SIERRA LEONE Photo credit: Shutterstock According to a United Nation report, only eight out of 126 developing nations have legalized abortion because of high demand. Over 1.3 million abortions are conducted annually in the United States and 43 million worldwide. Abortion is wrong and heartless. In fact , it is murder. It is wrong to kill an innocent (unborn) baby. The child has no crime nor a sin; as Africans and religious scholars, children are considered a gift from God thus the fetus (as medical practitioners call it) deserves a chance at life, and with The Safe Abortion Bill, they won't get that. The bill should not be passed into law. The word abortion by definition means the induced expulsion of a fetus from the womb before it is able to survive independently . Abortion is an extremely controversial issue in Sierra Leone and beyond. This is so because, while some pe...