Law Increasing Unsafe Abortions-Gynaecologist

Posted on: Wed 26-10-2016

A Gynaecologist with the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Dr Jimoh Olarewaju Saheed has said that the restriction law on abortion in the country has led to an increase in unsafe abortion as quacks and even some qualified doctors do it in places that lack basic medical centres.

He called on the National Assembly to revisit the abortion law by making it liberal stressing that if such law was looked into as is the practice in some developed countries and even South Africa, it would reduce to the lowest minimum death rate due to unsafe abortion.

The gynaecologist said the present Nigerian law attracts 14 years imprisonment to anybody including a qualified medical doctor caught involved in abortion which he said is illegal.

He called for proper family planning and contraception to prevent unwanted pregnancies and described congenital abnormalities of babies as one of the factors that lead to miscarriage among pregnant women.

By: Romoke W. Ahmad, Ilorin

Daily Trust News

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