Editor,Allow me to react to the story I read in The New Times, April 5, titled “MPs agree on abortion.In my view, abortion will remain an offence no matter the circumstances it has been carried out. The bill would have focused on establishing ways of identifying the victims of rape, incest, forced marriage and others who face similar cases and get unwanted pregnancies, and devising ways of supporting such people, instead of pushing for abortion. The right to life, survival is a scared one, even for the unborn child. All countries, including Rwanda, should ensure that no one terminates the life of the other.Enock Nkuranga Kampala Editor,Disgusting. I think that our MP’s are in the pocket of religious organisations. How else can they ignore the plight of the 60,000 women who are forced to undergo illegal abortions every year? Shall they imprison women for years? Sometimes I feel embarrassed to be called Rwandan. Some of my fellow citizens are acting like villagers.Sunny RwegoKigaliEditor,Our representatives in Parliament are ingenious, indeed! Can they tell the nation how they will ascertain the circumstances in which the ‘unwanted’ abortion-candidate pregnancy took place? Incest? Rape? If a rape crime, for instance, has been committed resulting in a pregnancy, will the authorisation of abortion take into account whether that ‘crime’ has been sanctioned by the courts of law? It takes at least 28 days for a woman to suspect that she is pregnant. What if in those 28 days the woman slept with other men willingly? Who will establish the particular circumstance responsible for this pregnancy?KarekeziKigali
