Most Gory Story I’ve Heard Recently – Forceful Abortion Of Five Months Pregnancy By Pelumi Olajengbesi Esq.

Nigeria despite its many faults is a nation of laws and the laws must be respected. I had a crucial meeting with very few experienced stakeholders in the medical community in Lagos today (Sunday) on the disposition of the community to issues of abortion in Nigeria and now I am back in Abuja for action.

I arrived in Lagos interested in the licence of a particular doctor, hospital and character who forcefully supervised the abortion of five months’ pregnancy of his wife against her will.

Some people in Nigeria believe they are very influential and cannot be touched even when they are wrong. Abortion in Nigeria is illegal and there is no second-guessing the law on this. It is morally wrong and manifestly illegal to carry out an abortion, especially one that’s forcefully imposed with the active connivance of medical personnel.

A man in Nigeria forced his wife to abort a five months pregnancy against her wish because their relationship has gone bad despite all protests and is smug in the conviction that he has gotten away with it. He drove her to the hospital, paid the doctor who is his friend and supervised the abortion of the baby, during which the lady was bleeding and begging! The inhumanity is unfathomable. 

I am currently talking to some human rights partners across the world and this is an issue that must be properly documented to forestall a reoccurrence. Medical doctors with a sworn oath to protect lives must not be allowed to abuse their training and for every criminal indulgence in the medical profession, there must be a legal comeuppance.

Abortion remains illegal in Nigeria, except for medical reasons, otherwise referred to as therapeutic abortion where it is a form of treatment to save the mother’s life as it may happen in intrauterine foetal death. However, even gross congenital anomaly in babies that may put a mother’s life at risk or inconsistent with life on delivery which has been argued as grounds for termination of a pregnancy has ethical issues and the ultimate decider is the mother.

That a man will insist and supervise such a criminal act even when the wife was in tears pleading for her baby’s life is inhuman, and criminal and must invite proper action. I heard the young man is diverting attention to another issue and he is threatening to deal with me for taking this up. Congratulations, he has finally won his lottery game. Happy Sunday! 

Pelumi Olajengbesi Esq.

Source:- Saharareporters

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