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Kenya: Abortion Debate - Women Must Register All Their Conceptions

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Until now, an oversight has allowed Kenya to look like a pagan country without a culture or religion.

How is it that a nation that unanimously embraces and fears God, one that worships him and obeys all his commandments could, for so long, not point out categorically when life begins?

Mercifully, Members of Parliament have now rectified that lapse of history by stating in the proposed constitution that life does indeed begin at conception.

As soon as the new constitution comes into force, women who have been subversively undermining Kenya's population growth will be held in check because they will no longer obtain an abortion through the short text message service, the internet or other modern methods they have been wont to employ.

This should place Kenya's population in the same league as that of emerging superpowers like Iran and North Korea.

As a nation sworn to upholding human rights and non-discrimination, Kenya will enter a phase in which it will no longer be possible to discriminate against the seed of the poor, the irresponsible, the incestuous and the rapists by guaranteeing it protection in the constitution.

These protections -- and the punishments for their breach -- are in line with the natural hierarchy that places the life of a foetus above that of an adult infected.

The habit of women volunteering themselves for pregnancy and then suddenly changing their minds and seeking abortion is abhorrent and needs legal discouragement.

Once you volunteer for pregnancy, verbally through action or non-action, you must carry it to full term. If you do not volunteer, someone volunteers you. It is a free country, after all.

Allowing abortion would encroach on the human rights of people who commit rape and incest, who need to reproduce and ensure their progeny on the same scale as everyone else.

People whose religion or lack of it permits them to abbreviate the unborn's lives through abortion and contraception should be invited to move to the atheist republic of Great Britain.

Contraception failure is no excuse for abortion as it is, in itself, usually a message from the higher authorities in the firmament: Divinity hates condoms -- and pills and coils -- and Norplant -- but especially the E-pill.

The only contraception women should have is the word No! (And the rhythm method).

As a show of its Christian charity, Kenya ought to invest in printing and distributing T-shirts with a big "No" on the front for all women to wear so that when they are not ready for motherhood, men can get the message.

A woman's uterus is public property -- just like the airwaves. The control of what happens to, and inside, them cannot be left to individual women alone.

Women must receive guidance -- mostly from celibate men in holy orders -- on how to deploy this public resource, of which they are only custodians.

They must not waste too much time studying engineering, architecture, medicine and social work if it interferes with optimising the deployment of the uterus to making sure there is no shortage of individuals on the planet.

Women should have choices, but they cannot include the use of a public resource like a uterus -- something they only hold in trust.

Creation may have designed women with the ability to do engineering, social work and everything else, but they were the only ones created for motherhood -- a task they must fulfil, even if it the last thing they do before they depart this life.

This business of women having sex for pleasure alone and not showing any results -- for example, a pregnancy -- is socially selfish and unacceptable. If a woman does not want a baby, she should not have sex.

After all, such privileges are only for men. If she gets pregnant, it is her fault, and she must pay for it by raising it to adulthood -- even if it is entirely on her own, without support from anybody.

Should she lose opportunities to develop herself, it all chalks up as penance.

In future, Kenya should tighten the screws on abortion so that no woman, under any circumstances, can murder an unborn baby, even if it is just seconds old, by swallowing an emergency contraceptive pill.

For starters, all women could be required to show up at a government or church office to register every possible conception. An official would then be appointed to monitor the conception so that it is carried to term and delivered safely.

After that and once out of danger from abortionists, the child could choose what it wants to die from -- malaria, measles, cholera, diarrhoea, pneumonia and malnutrition.

The savings from the current chaotic registration of births would go to paying the officials who would monitor every life conceived and ensure it is safely delivered into this world to eat the bread of sorrow.

With time, women could even begin to check in during ovulation and dock the days when they ovulate while in the company of a partner. It is a leave-no-foetus-behind policy, and it works.

Tagged: East Africa, Kenya, Women

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  • wamuyum2
    Mar 17 2010, 06:02

    whoever wrote this must be a man. I went to school with a girl who was raped by her own father and concived in the process. Tell her how to say no to her father, expalin to her how she can ask her father to use the rythm method. Tell the women who were raped how to say no, tell women in abusive sexual realtionships to say no, especially in a society that glorifies men and humiliates women, blaming women for the abuse they endure. Tell a 14 year old with an abusive father how to not get an abortion when her lover is 15 years old. Get of your high horse for a few minutes and place your self in their shoes. Stop blaming the west for their influence on our culture, beacuse if they are as evil as you seem to preach, then I am sure you dont own a t.v and that the internet was an African invention. Life has changed in Africa, we are not who we were 100 years ago. We can hide behind the facade of morality and let innocent women die or face reality and debate abortion soberly. Woemn volunteer to get pregnant? Are you serious? Ask those who use rythm method how many times it has failed them. When you have an african man who does not listen and wants what he wants when he wants it. You have a baby for every year you have been together and yet you live on less than a dollar a day. If you were advocating for education of the masses, both MALE and female, then I would agree with you. But forcing a woman to give birth to a child then the man dissappers is not fair, especially in a continent where the men are more economically empowered. It breeds an unending poverty.