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Nigerian
Catholic Bishops has expressed their total displeasure over an alleged
move by the Minister of Health in collaboration with foreign
organizations to encourage abortion among Nigerian women.
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In a communiqué issued at the end of a 3-day second plenary
meeting, the Catholic Bishops Conference of Ibadan Ecclesiastical
province, has kicked against the alleged move by the Minister of Health,
Prof Isaac Adewole, in collaboration with foreign organizations, to
encourage abortion by increasing the culture of contraception among
Nigerian women.
The respected clerics who described the move by the federal government as an ‘anti-life policy’ after the plenary meeting of the province held in Akure, the Ondo State capital on Wednesday, “condemned
the recent move by the Minister of Health, Prof Adewole in
collaboration with the foreign agencies to commit the federal government
to increasing the culture of contraception and subsequently, abortion
among our people.”
According to Vanguard,
the communiqué signed by its President and Archbishop of Ibadan,
Gabriel Abegunrin and Secretary, Bishop Felix Ajakaye noted that “the policy is being done all in the name of providing better maternal health and empowering our people.”
The communiqué reads: “We see such moves as deceptive to our people and harmful to m0ral values and we ask Nigerians to reject them.”
The clerics also lauded President Muhammadu Buhari’s efforts at
ridding the country of corruption and for exposing corrupt Nigerians in
his anti-graft war, advising that the president must institutionalize
the fight for it to outlast his administration and become deeply
entrenched in the system.
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