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Clerics unmoved by NGO’s pro-abortion stance
Several religious leaders have raised concerns over an advocacy campaign championed by a nongovernmental organisation, Health Development Initiative (HDI), to decriminalise abortion. According to HDI, continued criminalisation of the act leads to unsafe abortion which might cause death and other complications, saying that legalising it would lead to the use of safer methods to avoid unnecessary deaths.
A police officer closes down a clinic after the owner disappeared following a botched abortion. Clerics want the act to remain criminal.