The Abortion and Sterilisation Act no 2 of 1975, amended in August 1978, is outdated with about 44 years.
According to most, a generation runs across a span of 30 years.
We find ourselves in 2022, and the last time this imperialist law was enacted, was when we had oppressors.
Henceforth, this act must be declared unconstitutional.
Namibia, the so-called “;Land of the Brave”;, has, and continues to entertain, an imperialist law meant to oppress our people.
In hindsight, the babydumping epidemic is not the end result, but merely a symptom of an oppressed and silenced nation crying out for help.
We are quick to blame women who get pregnant at a young age, or who dump the child when she has no means to maintain its life.
We are easy to point fingers at the swollen belly of a teenage girl and cry promiscuity.
Yet we forget the system was not made to support teenage girls when it holds onto “;grandpa”; laws.
Oppressive systems, even though they may appear secular in nature, bear the telltale sign of silence, which in turn perpetuates the violence at the root of teenage pregnancy and baby dumping.
One issue does not exist independently of another.Teenage pregnancy goes hand in hand with baby dumping, the culture of sugar daddies, and rape.
And baby dumping fuels hate, poverty and gender based violence.
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