Getting pregnant at campus after a daylong or probably a night long ‘bed activity’ must be the hardest thing for any campus girl especially when both your parents are the tough kind.
Here are screenshots of a campus dude (anonymous) as he pleads with his pregnant girlfriend (identity hidden) not to abort. Though the babe insists on abortion, the guy seems to be willing to be a father to the baby. From other snots of the screenshot seen by this reporter, it looks like the babe is a student of MUBS Nakawa.
Abortion in Uganda is illegal unless performed by a doctor who believes pregnancy places the woman’s life at risk. The Ugandan Ministry of Health estimates that as of 2008, 26% of all maternal deaths result from abortion complications.
This is aggravated by legal, socioeconomic, and geographical barriers to safe abortion, which compel women to use unsafe abortion methods and deter them from seeking post-abortion medical care. Contraception is not commonly used, leading to Uganda’s need for family planning.
Laws on abortion
The Ugandan Constitution, in Article 22, item 2 states: “No person has the right to terminate the life of an unborn child except as may be authorized by law.” However, what is authorized by law remains poorly understood.
The Penal Code of 1950, Article 141 on “Attempts to procure abortion” states:
“Any person who, with intent to procure the miscarriage of a woman whether she is or is not with child, unlawfully administers to her or causes her to take any poison or other noxious thing, or uses any force of any kind, or uses any other means, commits a felony and is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years.
Article 142 lays out a punishment of seven years for an attempt to procure a miscarriage.
Nonetheless, under other provisions of the Penal Code an abortion may be performed to save the life of a pregnant woman. Section 217 of the Code provides that a person is not criminally responsible for performing in good faith and with reasonable care and skill a surgical operation upon an unborn child for the preservation of the mother’s life if the performance of the operation is reasonable, having regard to the patient’s state at the time and to all the circumstances of the case.
In addition, Section 205 of the Code provides that no person shall be guilty of the offence of causing by willful act a child to die before it has an independent existence from its mother if the act was carried out in good faith for the purpose of preserving the mother’s life.
In Uganda, an abortion is permitted to save a woman’s life, preserve the physical health of the woman, and to preserve the mental health of the woman. An abortion is not permitted in terms of rape or incest, fetal impairment, economic or social reasons, or by request. A legal abortion has to be performed by a licensed and registered physician with the consent of two physicians prior to the medical procedure.
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