A woman’s right to choose: Or is it?

Monday, June 27, 2022 | 470 Views |

The issue of abortion is a touchy one. From time of conception, a child is supposed to be the responsibility of two individuals who made it possible for that child to be conceived, but oftentimes such is not the case!

Here in Botswana, we have many single-parent households, mostly female-led, so what does that suggest? That some fathers choose to ditch the responsibility of caring for their children and leave them to the ones who carry them during pregnancy to do the heavy lifting.

Of course, in other dynamics, there are instances where the father wants to keep the baby and the would-be mother does not want to, hence the saying ‘whose body is it anyway’.

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A woman’s right to choose: Or is it?

The issue of abortion is a touchy one. From time of conception, a child is supposed to be the responsibility of two individuals who made it possible for that child to be conceived, but oftentimes such is not the case!

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