A report on NTV Kenya talks about the abortion clause of the draft constitution. It claims that abortion is one of the main reasons why Churches are urging Kenyans to vote “No”, but the Committee of Experts that wrote the constitution say that the Churches themselves have partly worded the abortion clause. One of the members on the CoE, Njoki Ndung’u, says that the issue of abortion has 3 ‘faces’. One is of the Church, the ‘moral face’. The second is of the doctors, the ‘medical face’, and the third face is the ‘health face’, of the affected women. She also said that the clause which refers to life beginning at conception is a belief shared only by some Christians, and not other religions in Kenya. She also made a point that the wording of the clause can be taken to illegalize contraceptives, because family-planning injections and morning-after pills prevent a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus, and conception has already taken place. It also discusses the miscommunication between Churches about the wordings sent to the Parliamentary Select Committee.
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