Malawi: Activist says hypocrisy derailing tabling of abortion bill

Activist says hypocrisy derailing tabling of abortion bill
By Malawi24 Reporter
Feb 17, 2017

A gender rights activist has expressed dissatisfaction over Parliament’s failure to table and discuss the Termination of Pregnancy bill.

Gender activist Emma Kaliya said Members of Parliament (MPs) had agreed to one thing during the training on the bill and they change tune in other forums.

She said the MPs always say that they love their voters but in actual sense that’s not true because they could not have left women in their constituencies to be dying due to archaic laws on abortion.

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