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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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cirmuell:
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BrokenTV:
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OgagaMic:
and who gives a Bleep abt Yoruba or lagos?,,, u always want all d project b located in SW.

jst stop disturbing GEJ, and leave him 4 us, we love him like tat

OgagaMic:
sometimes I wonder if u use ur brain, see ur mouth, nw I know y Igbo people always attack u guys

U don high, So everything should b in SW, wat of Us, we tat re producing the oil , we tat re feeding d whole Nigeria, from east to west, to north

I nor blame u, na condition put us 4 d same country

Er0ticAngela:
This is a very good news. The project should remin in Lagos State. If the arguement for the decongestion of Lagos holds water, then the project should be relocated to either Ogun state or Ondo state both in the SouthWest, both states also have access to the Atlantic Ocean and crude oil deposits

Jonathan should enjoin his Niger Delta kinsmen to build such for them too in Bayelsa state. Mr Ladi Jadesinmi's project SHALL REMAIN IN THE SOUTH WEST

barcanista:
This is looking serious

AbuuUsaamah:
Hey man, my religion comes before my country!!!

If you do not know what infidel means, grab a dictionary. It's not an abusive word. It means someone who does not believe in a certain religion.

AbuuUsaamah:
I don't discuss with heathens!

AbuuUsaamah:
This is the type of news I love; the type that really hits the infidels. Infidels be like: another one again? *develops HBP*

By the will and grace of Allah, this will be her last religion; the same way it was for Cat Stevens and Loon, aka Chauncey Lamont Hawkins.

By Allah, this religion shall spread to all corners of the world in spite of those that want to destroy it, both inside it and outside it- haters keep hating.

They want to extinguish the light of Allah, and Allah will perfect and complete His light, even tho the infidels hate that.
[Surah 51, verse 8]

Jeffy1206:
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ajasa4link:
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Jeffy1206:
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lofty900:
can't believe I read the whole episode! reminds me of the day cultists drag one final year guy out of the exam hall in broad daylight in our presence and axed him on his head and he died on the spot. Later we discovered that he was also a cultist.

If u r a cultist reading this, the thunder that will fire u is undergoing brainwashing in Yemen

winniz:
Which 99% votes are you blabbing about? Did Yorubas not vote their so called ACN or whatever?

herringbone:
One poster implies that SE/SS needs to vote a SWestner to curb excessive power of the north..i laff plenty. The same people that voted a northner as a president as against their southern brother..una get mouth otolo oo

BlackTechnology:
You guys think you will go free after 2015 treachery



That Northern domination will see you guys in the political dustbin of Nigeria



It is either you guys serve the North as loyal slaves or perish.



Buhari


BABA ONE CHANCE


Sir

Tinubu's people voted you because they believe they can steal the oil wealth and presidency through you


They believe Tinubu through Osinbajo can control your government the way Idiagbon did


Sir

They do not believe in change because if they do, they would have voted you in 2007 and 2011


Remember that you are a descendant of Usman Dan Fodio

Remember that your ancestors never allowed the Oduduwas deceive them


WISE UP

Udmaster:
you are very silly, Igbos will dominate you Everytime and you will keep ranting like an slowpoke Escapee.

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Fiilosofer:
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cmacs:
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