Unless the Federal Government halts its plans to increase contraceptive prevalence from 15 to 36 percent, the death rate of babies who die through abortion in Nigeria annually could climb from 5.8million to 13.9million, a Civil Society Organisation of Nigeria(CSON) has said.
The CSONsaid Nigeria aborts an average of 1,125,000 million babies annually, stressing that using the world ratio of abortion and abortifacient deaths; Nigeria was killing 5,850,000 million by contraception annually.
Speaking at a press conference in Lagos, the Director-General, Project for Human Development, Mr. Jerry Okwuosa, said that, ve prevalent from 15.1 per cent to 36 per cent would take our contraception death toll to 13,947,020 million annually or an additional 8 million deaths by professorial antics.
The group kicked against recent proposal by the Federal Government to increase contraceptive prevalence in Nigeria from 15 per cent to 36 percent in order to reduce Nigeria's population, explaining that the increase use of contraceptives amounts to legalizing abortion in Nigeria through the back door. Indeed the group said the proposal by the Minister of Health Professor Isaac Adewole had been presented to President Muhammadu Buhari, adding that the minister should stop encouraging the use of contraceptives by Nigerians. The government had in August announced plans to accelerate contraceptive prevalence rate in Nigeria to 36 per cent by 2018.
According to the Minister of Health, Prof Isaac Adewole, the acceleration will help control the imminent population explosion and also improve the quality of life for women and children. Prof Adewole, who spo. Prof Adewole, who spoke at an event on family planning, said the present administration would make family planning a national policy.
The group said that contraceptive is a slippery slope to abortion, "hence once a woman is tricked into using contraception, and it fails (as they always do), she will go for abortion (the ultimate contraceptive) because she considers the resulting baby a failure of technology and not her fault."
By: Philip Nwosu
Daily Sun News
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