IPPF Africa Region Protests Against Unsafe Abortion

The recent comments by U.S. congressman, Kris Smith, of New Jersey, at a forum organised by the Kenya Christian Professionals Forum in which he compared the country's constitution with that of Cuba's that permits termination of children with Down Syndrome has received knocks from the(IPPFAR).

IPPFAR described the U.S. congressman's statement as a mission and political agenda by the America's Republican and Fundamentalist Christians in U.S. to control women's sexuality and their bodies.

Smith had reportedly asserted that the Kenyan Constitution opens the door to abortion on demand but IPPFAR noted the perception is purely based on misrepresentation and distortion of facts regarding the Constitution and access to safe abortion in Kenya.

In his closed-door speech to select Christians under the auspices of the Kenya Christian Professionals Forum last March, Smith had compared Kenya's new Constitution to the Cuban "eugenics policy" of terminating children with Down's Syndrome and asserted that nobody would be allowed to build their "political futures on the backs of dead babies and wounded mothers." read more>>

Source: http://www.ippf.org