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Zooming into the building with my somewhat fast and furious moves, I guess there's no need for introduction as we already know what's on ground. It's the SOPHOMORE EDITION AND THE ESSAY SUBMISSION STAGE OF THE NAIRALAND INTERSCHOOL DEBATE COMPETITION.Referring to records, Twenty four schools got into the entry stage of the competition but the best six schools which were grand enough were given the shoulder pad to get their shoulders raised into the next level which is THIS.

Summing up the first paragraph into a summary, the first stage of the competition has been passed and all thanks to the GOd, the Judges, Audience, Coordinators and whosoever is worth the vote of thanks for the success of the stage. More of your support is similarly needed at this stage of the competition, as you do so, receive a Godly pat on your back!!!

Skipping other issues that might be probably addressed later, the purpose of the thread is to unveil as received, the essay submitted by the two combating schools |LASU and IBADAN POLY| on the topic "Legalization Of Abortion In Nigeria: A Freedom Of Choice ".

Ceteris paribus, all is set and all is well, feel free to rush down to your refrigerator and grab a bottle of champagne, or probably get a calabash of rain water while you sit back and read along.

Conclusively, provided you have not been following the debate from the outset, you may go through THIS THREAD.



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TOPIC: Legalization Of Abortion In Nigeria: A Freedom Of Choice

LASU (Oppose) VS IBADAN POLY (Support)


CHIEF HOST
Seun - CEO Nairaland


CHAIRMAN
lalasticlala


COORDINATORS
Olawalebabs
Fynestboi
Richiez
Fattbabakay


JUDGES
Hidentity
Matthew Briggs

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PARTICIPANTS
LASU(Defending Champion)
iamdejman
timdelaw
ayesco202
odunharry

IBADAN POLY
samyscholar
megabyte

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SUBMISSION RULES

1.) All contestants representing each institution are expected to forward their essay to the designated email on or before (Saturday 10am) anything antithetical to this hypothecates disqualification.

2.) The recommended font size is the default size (size 8.) and the colour is Green for the supporting side and BLUE for the opposing side. Please note that you are to use the designated colour all through the debate period.

3.) The essay should contain a maximum of 1000 words.

4.) The use of SMS language and abbreviations is strictly interdicted.

5.) All materials used should be properly referenced at the end of the essay.

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JUDGING CRITERIA (5 marks each)

1. Presentation

2. Logic of arguments

3. Strenght of facts, examples, cases.

4. Persuasiveness

5. Demonstration of knowledge and understanding of the subject

SCHOOL: THE POLYTECHNIC, IBADAN.
NAME: Sammyscholar
TOPIC: Legalization of Abortion in Nigeria: a Freedom of Choice
STANCE: supporting
 
In every nook of Nigeria today, it is common to see countless children wondering about with no one to point at has their parent or where to point at as their place of abode. Many of them are product of unwanted pregnancy whose parent had dumped on the street few days after they were born. Cases abound of babies dumped on refuse sites, walk-ways, etc. Many of them were never planned for in the first place. Such children are those that grow to become menace to the society.
 
More pressing are the cases of pregnant women who had severe complications [that sometimes result in mortality] as result of their bad state of health. So also are the unfortunate rape victims who had to contend with unwanted pregnancies that they had never wished nor bargained for. They [in most cases] had to live with the ugly stigma for the rest of their lives. All these could have been contained [and could only be contained] if there is an instrumental law legalizing safe abortion so women can have proper control of their lives.
 
Dishearteningly, whilst many have been advocating safe abortions as the way to go, some have vehemently disagreed, calling it barbaric, inhumane, murder and all sorts of names. As a pro-choice and a progressive, I make bold to say: LEGALIZATION OF ABORTION IN NIGERIA IS A FREEDOM OF CHOICE.
 
We cannot continue to deny women the right to make choice about issues affecting their lives and expect a peaceful and serene society. Every woman must have the right to choose whether or not to have an early termination of pregnancy according to her own will. Abortion is not a murder to a pregnant woman whose life is in danger and could only survive by getting ride of her pregnancy. Abortion is never inhumane for a rape victim whose aspirations have been traumatized and could only be revived by aborting her unsolicited pregnancy. What do we say of parent that has had the optimum children they can cater for but, mistakenly, had a pregnancy that could destabilize their family forever? Of course, having an abortion is the way to go! Or can we contest the fact that no one is above mistake?
 
Many anti-abortion advocates may say abortion denies the fetus the right to life. But it does not! Getting ride of pregnancy when it poses a threat to the life of a woman is not a murder. It becomes a murder only when there are no solid reasons to justify the action. Many may even go further to say abortion is dangerous for the lives of women. It is not! It only becomes dangerous when it is handled by illegal and unprofessional health workers; which are more reasons why abortion should be legalized so women can have access to legal and quality abortion procedures under the care of professional health practitioners.
 
Many countries that have made it illegal to have abortion are now nursing their wounds. One of such countries, Romania, under its dictator, Nicolai Ceausescu, made declaration that the country's policy of legal and safe abortion be reversed. Instead of reducing abortion, it led to the mushroom of underground abortion networks. Countless maternal deaths were recorded as a result of unsuccessful abortions handled by illegal and unprofessional health workers. Countless babies died for lack of medical care, food, and maternal beds. According to Joyce Arthur's article published on ‘pro CHOICE action network’ site in 1999; "the country [Romania] was so embarrassed at its soaring maternal and infant mortality rate that it abandoned international standards for recording them. Over 20 years, an estimated 10,000 women died needlessly from illegal abortion alone. Ceausescu's action led to his down fall [he was executed in 1989], and it resulted in thousands of abandoned and neglected children whose plight moved the world"
 
In conclusion, abortion is not a murder; it is not a denial of life if it is done at the right time and under the right conditions. Having access to safe abortion is the only way to protect our society against proliferation of: maternal and infant mortality, crippling emotional handicaps, troubled home and family, abuse and neglect of children by parents, early/unplanned parent hood, juvenile delinquency/criminality, and other ugly occurrences.
 
Lest I close, I once again, established solidly that: legalizing abortion in Nigeria does not mean everyone must have abortion; it is only a freedom of choice and no woman should be forced against her will. Thank you.
 
REFERENCES:
1)      abortion.procon.org/view.answers.php?questionID=1447

2)      http://socialistworker.org/2013/11/01/abortion-every-womans-right
3)      http://www.123helpme.com/assets/16885.html
4)      http://www.prochoiceactionnetwork-canada.org/abortioninfo/history.shtml

The Amiable and Powerful Chief Host
Seun Osewa - CEO Nairaland
Honorable CHAIRMAN of the Occasion
Lalasticlala
Ever Ready COORDINATORS
Incorruptible JUDGES
My fellow debaters
Good day Ladies and Gentlemen

Lagos State University debaters are here to oppose blatantly and firmly the topic, Legalization of Abortion in Nigeria: A freedom of Choice.
The controversy as to whether abortion on demand should be legalized in Nigeria has been long and protracted. A great many insist that all forms of willful abortion should be criminalized. In this school of thought, we find the Catholic Church at the baseline. Nevertheless, the leftist pro-choice school defends the opinion that it is only fair and just that a woman should be left to decide in such a grave matter about her life and health. The end of civil and criminal laws is to safeguard relationships and environments conducive to life as well as to protect life together with the property that enhances same. When laws municipal and/or international derail from this objective, doom is obviously impending. A proper understanding of the ultimate essence of law is therefore the intensification of conditions and circumstances favorable to life and human coexistence. A primary principle of Natural law relates to the preservation of life conatus essendi from the same derives the imperative of procreation and the inviolability of the human family as secondary principles. Hence any legal system that is properly inspired by the Natural law is likely to oppose all threats to life and living conditions of citizens.

Sequel to the above analysis, abortion as we shall try to understand it is one of the most fundamental anti-life preservation devices. Etymologically, it comes from two Latin words abortus and abortive meaning miscarriage, premature birth or perishing by an untimely birth respectively. Hence, in the widest intention of the word, abortion includes all cases of fetal expulsion from the womb whether inadvertently – miscarriage or spontaneous abortion or induced – abortion on demand. However, in its most concise extension, abortion so to speak denotes all cases of induced abortions. It is in this understanding that Fagothey states that: “abortion is the expulsion of a non viable fetus, that is of one too young to live outside the womb.” In the opinion of Callaham, it is the “ending of a pregnancy before the embryo or fetus can live outside the female body.” For Mathews, it is “the termination of pregnancy before independent viability of the fetus develops.”The World Health Organization (WHO) defines unsafe abortion as a procedure for terminating a pregnancy performed by persons lacking the necessary skills or in an environment not in conformity with minimal medical standards, or both.

In modern society, one of the most aggressive challenges to human life is the question of legal abortion. Here, what started with modern irreligion and craze for materialism is sought to be given a legal affirmation by a legislative act. Presently, many countries in Europe and America have given the seal to that culture of death. Down here in Nigeria, the debate continues and the two camps to the debate are flexing muscles for legislative recognition. The questions that have been addressed by both parties to the controversy include: when does life begin? Is a fetus a human person? What is the effect of fetal viability in the ascertainment of right? Is the health of the mother and/or her convenience a sufficient reason for a legislative action in favor of abortion? These questions and many more are Para-legal concerns before a dependable legal position can be taken by our courts and law makers.
There is no scientific doubt whatsoever that human life begins when the ovum of the mother and the sperm of the father unite. And at that point the whole genetic plan and code of that individual is there. The above words of Marks, the world leader of the pro-life movement, summarize the stand of the Lagos state University on the Topic. Fetal life, totally different from the mother’s, has separate and complete genetic constitution of forty-six chromosomes, and begins at conception. And any calculated attempt to abort it is morally reprehensible and ought also to be legally unlawful for law is a promoter of morals. In which case, what is moral and ethical will be defended by a legislative act. After conception, the embryo is alive and can now replace its own dying cells and needing nothing more but food and time to grow into a mature adulthood. This was demonstrated in Sweeney’s writing to the effect that “What is often called a cloth of blood is in fact a human being. Under electronic microscope, the different parts of a child’s body (head, eyes, arms, legs, etc.) are visibly forming within three weeks of conception.” Scientifically, after twenty-five days, the heart is beating already and by thirty days the brain is fully formed and all the organs are set for action.

Law and Morality are two institutions that greatly influence one another. It must be observed that under strict rational and ethical considerations, the life of the mother is not of any greater value than the life of the child/fetus. To justify abortion on the grounds of maternal indications fails because, human life is the same and of equal value whether of the mother or of the unborn. Man’s freedom and convenience stops where those of others including the unborn begin. No man can lawfully expend another’s life in favor of his own. At conception a distinct subject of right and legal protection is generated by natures act and reason. Not even when the subject is defective and/or deformed does it qualify for death by killing. “Care not killing” says Fagothey is due to the defective fetus. Killing is not therapeutic. It cannot heal. Both are hermeneutical opposites. Not even the issue of using “viability” defined in terms of “survivability” to determine permissibility of abortion is acceptable to the metaphysics of life. Viability rests on the sophistication of external support system prevailing at a time. It has no relationship with the value of the individual human life. Indeed, no one can decide for another in a matter as ultimate as having to die. This is the error of most modern legal systems which the Legal System in Nigeria must not follow. All freedoms which the laws have sought to defend pivot around the freedom to live and the denial of it amounts to the denial of the entire scheme of human freedom and the projection of a mechanistic world inimical to the moral universe and this defeats the end of our laws.
Every law, to be competent, as to regulate human and socio-political affairs ought to be reasonable and for law to be reasonable, it must draw from the rich deposits of moral, religious and sociological considerations which blend into the normative composite of the richest values of human history. Therefore, I think I need not emphasize much on the need for all us to rally round against the Legalization of Abortion in Nigeria as it is not a right to Freedom of choice to negate a right to Life.

Thank you

REFERENCE
1. World Health Organization
2. RIGHT TO LIFE AND ABORTION DEBATE IN NIGERIA: A CASE FOR THE LEGISLATION OF THE PRINCIPLE OF DOUBLE-EFFECT - Maurice Okechukwu Izunwa
3. No. 2, Albertta, Life Ethics Centre, 1992, P. 1 - Hence Alphonse De Valk
4. Roe v. Wade (1973) 410 U.S. 113, 93 S.Ct. 705
5. A. Fagothey, Right and Reason Collumbus, c.u. Moshby Co., 1959
6. D. Callaham, “Abortion” World Book Encyclopedia Chicago, Child-craft International inc., 1979
7. H.M. Leonard, “Abortion” Encyclopedia Britanica New York: William Benton Pub., 1972,
8. B. Sarvis and R. Hyman, The Abortion Controversy New York, Columbia University press,1974.
9. P. Mark, “Interview on Abortion” Touch Magazine, No. 95 July-November, 1990
10. R.V. Wade (1973) 410 U.S. 113, 93 S.Ct. 705.
11. Willke, Abortion: Questions and Answers, Ohio, Hayes Pub. Co., 2003




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Thanks.

fattbabakay:
.........Opens Floor............

NICE ONE CORD.

Thank God its NL debate not NA debate on bill.
Average nigerian aborts 3 times every year when its illegal, if dem come legalize am na to dey abort before pregnancy.

If poly beat una Lasu,
I WILL TREK FROM NAIRALAND TO DOLLARLAND.

Judge of Judges taking His mantle.

*grabs the mic*


let me officially welcome you to the second edition of NAIRALAND INTERSCHOOL DEBATE.....


The first edition is now erstwhile yes it is , all plaudit, acclamation and adoration to God for the megahit of the first edition, and also to our personage Judges and audience..... and here we go with the SECOND CHAPTER OF this esteemed interschool online debate i hope you find it more poignant, savory, piquant and educative.... Relax and read enthralling, bedazzle and spellbind write up from our portentous, stupendous and astounding contestant ... it's our relish to welcome you to the SECOND edition of the NAIRALAND INTERSCHOOL DEBATE. For those who have not been following, you may go through the history here:
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*drops mic*

I trust our amiable judges are very much around.



Hidentity
Matthew Briggs

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Nice

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Following

congratulations to oshiomhole

IF YOU DONT WANNA READ THROUGH THE ESSAY YOU CAN glob comment on the topic


TOPIC: Legalization Of Abortion In Nigeria: A Freedom Of Choice

Una dey do ojoro self. Its time the employer and unemployee debate too nah. Abi na banker vs teacher or virgin vs deflowered

Team lasu

Irep #FUTO

The title of the debate is too wordy. If the intent of the debate is to enlighten the masses on the benefits [if any] and costs of having an abortion, why can't the organisers just make the topic less confusing.

Fynestboi:
The Amiable and Powerful Chief Host
Seun Osewa - CEO Nairaland
Honorable CHAIRMAN of the Occasion
Lalasticlala
Ever Ready COORDINATORS
Incorruptible JUDGES
My fellow debaters
Good day Ladies and Gentlemen

Lagos State University debaters are here to oppose blatantly and firmly the topic, Legalization of Abortion in Nigeria: A freedom of Choice.
The controversy as to whether abortion on demand should be legalized in Nigeria has been long and protracted. A great many insist that all forms of willful abortion should be criminalized. In this school of thought, we find the Catholic Church at the baseline. Nevertheless, the leftist pro-choice school defends the opinion that it is only fair and just that a woman should be left to decide in such a grave matter about her life and health. The end of civil and criminal laws is to safeguard relationships and environments conducive to life as well as to protect life together with the property that enhances same. When laws municipal and/or international derail from this objective, doom is obviously impending. A proper understanding of the ultimate essence of law is therefore the intensification of conditions and circumstances favorable to life and human coexistence. A primary principle of Natural law relates to the preservation of life conatus essendi from the same derives the imperative of procreation and the inviolability of the human family as secondary principles. Hence any legal system that is properly inspired by the Natural law is likely to oppose all threats to life and living conditions of citizens.

Sequel to the above analysis, abortion as we shall try to understand it is one of the most fundamental anti-life preservation devices. Etymologically, it comes from two Latin words abortus and abortive meaning miscarriage, premature birth or perishing by an untimely birth respectively. Hence, in the widest intention of the word, abortion includes all cases of fetal expulsion from the womb whether inadvertently – miscarriage or spontaneous abortion or induced – abortion on demand. However, in its most concise extension, abortion so to speak denotes all cases of induced abortions. It is in this understanding that Fagothey states that: “abortion is the expulsion of a non viable fetus, that is of one too young to live outside the womb.” In the opinion of Callaham, it is the “ending of a pregnancy before the embryo or fetus can live outside the female body.” For Mathews, it is “the termination of pregnancy before independent viability of the fetus develops.”The World Health Organization (WHO) defines unsafe abortion as a procedure for terminating a pregnancy performed by persons lacking the necessary skills or in an environment not in conformity with minimal medical standards, or both.

In modern society, one of the most aggressive challenges to human life is the question of legal abortion. Here, what started with modern irreligion and craze for materialism is sought to be given a legal affirmation by a legislative act. Presently, many countries in Europe and America have given the seal to that culture of death. Down here in Nigeria, the debate continues and the two camps to the debate are flexing muscles for legislative recognition. The questions that have been addressed by both parties to the controversy include: when does life begin? Is a fetus a human person? What is the effect of fetal viability in the ascertainment of right? Is the health of the mother and/or her convenience a sufficient reason for a legislative action in favor of abortion? These questions and many more are Para-legal concerns before a dependable legal position can be taken by our courts and law makers.
There is no scientific doubt whatsoever that human life begins when the ovum of the mother and the sperm of the father unite. And at that point the whole genetic plan and code of that individual is there. The above words of Marks, the world leader of the pro-life movement, summarize the stand of the Lagos state University on the Topic. Fetal life, totally different from the mother’s, has separate and complete genetic constitution of forty-six chromosomes, and begins at conception. And any calculated attempt to abort it is morally reprehensible and ought also to be legally unlawful for law is a promoter of morals. In which case, what is moral and ethical will be defended by a legislative act. After conception, the embryo is alive and can now replace its own dying cells and needing nothing more but food and time to grow into a mature adulthood. This was demonstrated in Sweeney’s writing to the effect that “What is often called a cloth of blood is in fact a human being. Under electronic microscope, the different parts of a child’s body (head, eyes, arms, legs, etc.) are visibly forming within three weeks of conception.” Scientifically, after twenty-five days, the heart is beating already and by thirty days the brain is fully formed and all the organs are set for action.

Law and Morality are two institutions that greatly influence one another. It must be observed that under strict rational and ethical considerations, the life of the mother is not of any greater value than the life of the child/fetus. To justify abortion on the grounds of maternal indications fails because, human life is the same and of equal value whether of the mother or of the unborn. Man’s freedom and convenience stops where those of others including the unborn begin. No man can lawfully expend another’s life in favor of his own. At conception a distinct subject of right and legal protection is generated by natures act and reason. Not even when the subject is defective and/or deformed does it qualify for death by killing. “Care not killing” says Fagothey is due to the defective fetus. Killing is not therapeutic. It cannot heal. Both are hermeneutical opposites. Not even the issue of using “viability” defined in terms of “survivability” to determine permissibility of abortion is acceptable to the metaphysics of life. Viability rests on the sophistication of external support system prevailing at a time. It has no relationship with the value of the individual human life. Indeed, no one can decide for another in a matter as ultimate as having to die. This is the error of most modern legal systems which the Legal System in Nigeria must not follow. All freedoms which the laws have sought to defend pivot around the freedom to live and the denial of it amounts to the denial of the entire scheme of human freedom and the projection of a mechanistic world inimical to the moral universe and this defeats the end of our laws.
Every law, to be competent, as to regulate human and socio-political affairs ought to be reasonable and for law to be reasonable, it must draw from the rich deposits of moral, religious and sociological considerations which blend into the normative composite of the richest values of human history. Therefore, I think I need not emphasize much on the need for all us to rally round against the Legalization of Abortion in Nigeria as it is not a right to Freedom of choice to negate a right to Life.

Thank you

REFERENCE
1. World Health Organization
2. RIGHT TO LIFE AND ABORTION DEBATE IN NIGERIA: A CASE FOR THE LEGISLATION OF THE PRINCIPLE OF DOUBLE-EFFECT - Maurice Okechukwu Izunwa
3. No. 2, Albertta, Life Ethics Centre, 1992, P. 1 - Hence Alphonse De Valk
4. Roe v. Wade (1973) 410 U.S. 113, 93 S.Ct. 705
5. A. Fagothey, Right and Reason Collumbus, c.u. Moshby Co., 1959
6. D. Callaham, “Abortion” World Book Encyclopedia Chicago, Child-craft International inc., 1979
7. H.M. Leonard, “Abortion” Encyclopedia Britanica New York: William Benton Pub., 1972,
8. B. Sarvis and R. Hyman, The Abortion Controversy New York, Columbia University press,1974.
9. P. Mark, “Interview on Abortion” Touch Magazine, No. 95 July-November, 1990
10. R.V. Wade (1973) 410 U.S. 113, 93 S.Ct. 705.
11. Willke, Abortion: Questions and Answers, Ohio, Hayes Pub. Co., 2003




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my opinion,i think this dude is insane...period!

fattbabakay:
www.nairaland.com/attachments/2408643_nisd_jpeg3be8160565afcecc57c88704521e0a03

Zooming into the building with my somewhat fast and furious moves, I guess there's no need for introduction as we already know what's on ground. It's the SOPHOMORE EDITION AND THE ESSAY SUBMISSION STAGE OF THE NAIRALAND INTERSCHOOL DEBATE COMPETITION.Referring to records, Twenty four schools got into the entry stage of the competition but the best six schools which were grand enough were given the shoulder pad to get their shoulders raised into the next level which is THIS.

Summing up the first paragraph into a summary, the first stage of the competition has been passed and all thanks to the GOd, the Judges, Audience, Coordinators and whosoever is worth the vote of thanks for the success of the stage. More of your support is similarly needed at this stage of the competition, as you do so, receive a Godly pat on your back!!!

Skipping other issues that might be probably addressed later, the purpose of the thread is to unveil as received, the essay submitted by the two combating schools |LASU and IBADAN POLY| on the topic "Legalization Of Abortion In Nigeria: A Freedom Of Choice ".

Ceteris paribus, all is set and all is well, feel free to rush down to your refrigerator and grab a bottle of champagne, or probably get a calabash of rain water while you sit back and read along.

Conclusively, provided you have not been following the debate from the outset, you may go through THIS THREAD.



www.nairaland.com/attachments/2408709_legalization_jpege6bdbe05b9a640930483ab130296578b

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TOPIC: Legalization Of Abortion In Nigeria: A Freedom Of Choice

LASU (Oppose) VS IBADAN POLY (Support)


CHIEF HOST
Seun - CEO Nairaland


CHAIRMAN
lalasticlala


COORDINATORS
Olawalebabs
Fynestboi
Richiez
Fattbabakay


JUDGES
Hidentity
Matthew Briggs

www.nairaland.com/attachments/2408709_legalization_jpege6bdbe05b9a640930483ab130296578b

PARTICIPANTS
LASU(Defending Champion)
iamdejman
timdelaw
ayesco202
odunharry

IBADAN POLY
samyscholar
megabyte

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SUBMISSION RULES

1.) All contestants representing each institution are expected to forward their essay to the designated email on or before (Saturday 10am) anything antithetical to this hypothecates disqualification.

2.) The recommended font size is the default size (size 8.) and the colour is Green for the supporting side and BLUE for the opposing side. Please note that you are to use the designated colour all through the debate period.

3.) The essay should contain a maximum of 1000 words.

4.) The use of SMS language and abbreviations is strictly interdicted.

5.) All materials used should be properly referenced at the end of the essay.

---

JUDGING CRITERIA (5 marks each)

1. Presentation

2. Logic of arguments

3. Strenght of facts, examples, cases.

4. Persuasiveness

5. Demonstration of knowledge and understanding of the subject

infomation to all aboky in nairaland, may dem no try comot for dis thing cose na grammer thing ooh , bfor i go one question .aboki u go school ?,ah which scul ? Ok cattle scul yes i fgot

..IBADAN POLY was more precise and convincing . my opinion......

*claps** i give it up for the polites......gr8t nigerian students!

luthorcorp:
my opinion,i think this dude is insane...period!

I think say nah only me notice am....the guy only succeeded in confusing, rather than convincing.

thumbs up for that poly guy,i rep ib poly with my ddick,if you see am u go don know sy na poly dick be this .i hate this debate thing like oloribu in my secondary school ,tell me to list or give you ten example of wild animal ,i go tell you straight "5lion 5tiger " and if i see say you shock i go tell you "3crocodile 4antelope 2gorilla 1snake" not to talk of all those long long words,,the day i was told i will represent my class in a debate the next day,i pretend say i loose my voice and another person represent my class but one thing wey i take kill am na when i dey clap i con add "good of you"with a clear voice ,,you wan try the beating for staff room

Legalisation of Abortion can be somewhat of a birth control measure. You know, several highly populated states are poverty ridden and teeming teenage pregnancy has contributed to the immense increase in births. No wonder USA, China and India among other states subscribe to this position.

Moreso, given the fact that every person is expected to enjoy some measures of independence over their life as enshrined in the grund-num, I think it's high time every person is allowed to decide whether to born the baby or tuck it away.

Researches have shown that teenage pregnancy has contributed to increase in crime rate. As most criminals are products of unwanted pregnancy. Most of these children of circumstances are deprived of adequate care, proper upbringing and other basic necessities that make a proper upbringing.

A brief walk into the path of history exposed that legalisation of abortion only came into broadlight in 1973 in USA. Prior to that time, around 30 states had prohibited abortion as against the stand of the other twenty.

Abortion in India is legalised for only twenty weeks old pregnancy.

If China and India, two of the most populated countries in the universe can adopt this posture, the question for Nigeria, Africa's most populated country is - why not?

Fattbabakay: I see you.

Fynestboi: welcome back ogbeni