East Cape News (Grahamstown)
Sam Mkokeli
6 February 2001
Bisho — The habit of throwing unborn babies into the provincial sewage should be actively discouraged, said UDM MPL Christian Martin yesterday (subs:tues).
Martin was appealing to the legislature to take note of the "dramatic" incidence of aborted foetuses that were being found at disposal works in the province, specifically in the Schorneville area near King William's Town.
He said a subsidised education programme on the use of contraceptives was needed.
Throwing a foetus into the sewage was a serious action and the people concerned needed counselling in order to acknowledge the seriousness of their actions..
A follow-up on every case needed to be instituted by the police in order to curb "these unnecessary happenings and to discourage these events."
The legislature is expected to debate the issue later on.
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