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Nigeria: Abortion - Commissioner Threatens to Sanction Hospitals, Doctors
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Vanguard (Lagos)
25 March 2008
Posted to the web 26 March 2008
Vincent Ujumadu
Awka
ANY hospital in Anambra State that engages in procuring abortion will be closed down and the doctor involved stood the risk of losing his license, the state commissioner for health, Dr. Amobi Ilika has warned.
Addressing newsmen yesterday in Awka as part of activities to commemorate the right to life of the unborn child, the commissioner, who is in the fore-front for saving the unborn child, urged all tiers of government and the medical practitioners to do everything possible to save the unborn child because it has equal right to live as others that were born.
He reminded medical practitioners that it is against the law to commit abortion, noting that every doctor in Nigeria took the hypocritical oath not to commit abortion before he is given license to practice. The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), he added, also does not support abortion and the association has made it clear that it is an offence.
He said that in medicine, there is only one permitted occasion for inevitable abortion, adding that it is only when the mother is already bleeding and the doctor has to carry out evacuation in order to save the life of the mother.
According to him, abortion is the mother of crimes because it involves the killing of an innocent and defenseless person who, if allowed to live, might become very useful to the society.
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"We want to remember all the unborn children killed through abortion in the butcher houses all over the place. Sometimes they were rejected by describing them as unwanted. Abortion is the greatest crime against charity and love.
Dr Amobi Ilika deserves to be congratulated for upholding the right to life of the unborn. This right is protected by the UN Declaration of Human Rights, which upholds the right to life of all members of the "human family." The Convention on the Rights of the Child also protects the unborn, saying that children need legal safeguards "before as well as after birth". Despite these international agreements, many western governments and NGOs work to promote and fund abortion in less developed countries. This is to the great shame of my country (UK) and many others. ... [Read Full Text]
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