After the fall of Roe, emboldened religious conservatives lobby to restrict abortion in Africa

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

After the fall of Roe, emboldened religious conservatives lobby to restrict abortion in Africa

BY CARA ANNA
Published 12:10 AM EDT, July 2, 2023

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Nowhere in the world has a higher rate of unsafe abortions or unintended pregnancies than sub-Saharan Africa, where women often face scorn for becoming pregnant before marriage.

Efforts to legalize and make abortions safer in Africa were shaken when the U.S. Supreme Court ended the national right to an abortion a year ago. Within days, Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio declared that his government would decriminalize abortion “at a time when sexual and reproductive health rights for women are being either overturned or threatened.”

But some U.S.-based organizations active in Africa were emboldened, especially in largely Christian countries. One is Family Watch International, a nonprofit Christian conservative organization whose anti-LGBTQ+ stance, anti-abortion activities and “intense focus on Africa” led to its designation as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

In April, Family Watch International helped to develop a “family values and sovereignty” meeting at Uganda’s presidential offices with lawmakers and other delegates from more than 20 African countries. The organization’s Africa director also is advocating for his country, Ethiopia, to revoke a 2005 law that expanded abortion access and dramatically reduced maternal mortality.

“It’s kind of like the gloves are off,” Sarah Shaw, ...

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[slightlv]

1. IMO, religious missionaries should be thrown out of foreign countries.

They are not diplomats. They do a hell of a lot of harm to the indigenous peoples. They kill cultures world-wide.

Besides, missionary work (as I remember it) is based upon preaching the "good news" to one and all, all over the world. So that there is no one who hasn't heard the name "Jesus Christ."

I think that has something to do with bringing in the end times, if I remember the charismatic church I used to belong to a lifetime ago.

Well, everyone now has the opportunity to know, if they don't know already, the name Jesus Christ. Most people use it as an epithet in many, many parts of the world. Jesus H. Christ, I've had enough of these peoples. It's time for their Jesus to rapture them and get them out of our hair, for OUR sake. Problem is, they don't walk the path of Jesus... and they don't preach Jesus' full message. Heretics, all of them. They align more with the devil than with the Christ, via their words and deeds. By their fruit shall you know them. Yippers... you sure can.

[dembotoz]

2. the break up of the methodist church in this country is supposedly the result of the conserative

African congregations that have grown in size and power.

i no longer call myself a methodist