Stakeholders back Ogun Assembly’s proposed bill on safe termination of pregnancy

Stakeholders astatine the nationalist proceeding connected the projected Ogun State Safe Termination of Pregnancy Law, 2026, person commended the State House of Assembly for initiating the bill, describing it arsenic a well-conceived legislation.

According to them, it is aimed astatine reducing maternal mortality, protecting healthcare professionals and providing a wide ineligible model for harmless gestation absorption successful the state.

The stakeholders included a erstwhile Chairman of the State subdivision of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, Dr Azeem Ashimi, the typical of the State section of National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives, Nurse Bello Adejoke, the Onitafin of Otafin, Oba Morufu Adebayo among others.

At the lawsuit connected Thursday, they raised the request to code the ineligible ambiguity surrounding harmless termination of pregnancy, noting that specified ambiguity successful the ineligible provisions often resulted successful unsafe delays successful diligent care, calling for capable indemnity for qualified aesculapian practitioners to forestall unjust penalties.

They besides advocated for machineries to beryllium enactment successful spot to forestall the victims of rape and incest from patronizing quacks, by ensuring that lone licensed professionals supply specified aesculapian services.

In her remarks, the State Commiss...