Stop extreme abortion law coming to Liberia

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Dear Senator,

I am writing to ask that you to ensure that the abortion section in the Public Health Bill is removed.

I want to make it very clear that when it comes to voting in the next election this is the most important issue to me. If the extreme abortion section in the Public Health Bill remains in the Bill and you vote in support of the Public Health Bill, I will not vote for you in the next election.

Under our current law abortion is allowed in exceptional circumstances - where the mother’s life is at risk, rape/incest/felonious intercourse, and disability of the fetus. These are rare situations.

The extreme abortion section in the Public Health Bill will scrap our current law and replace it with an extreme law that allows abortion, for any reason, on demand, up to when the baby in the womb is at 14 weeks gestation.

Overseas, in countries that allow abortion on demand, a very small percentage of abortions are performed for the extreme situations covered by our current law and over 95% happen on demand and under 14 weeks. So the proposed law would allow over 95% of abortions to happen.

It has been estimated that this change from allowing abortion in exceptional circumstances to allowing abortion on demand would lead to the lives of up to 40,000 babies being lost to abortion in Liberia every single year.

If the extreme abortion section of the Bill remains in the Public Health Bill, anyone who votes for the Public Health Bill will have the blood of each of these babies on their hands.

I want to again emphasize that if this horriffic abortion section remains in the Public Health Bill and you vote in support of the Public Health Bill, I will not vote for you in the next election.

Yours sincerely,

The Public Health Bill is currently before the Senate.

Under our current law, abortion is allowed in exceptional circumstances – where the mother’s life is at risk, rape/incest/felonious intercourse, and disability of the fetus. These are rare situations.

The Public Health Bill includes an abortion section that will scrap our current law and replace it with an extreme law that allows abortion, for any reason, on demand, up to when the baby in the womb is at 14 weeks gestation.

It has been estimated that this change from allowing abortion in exceptional circumstances to allowing abortion on demand would lead to the lives of up to 40,000 babies being lost to abortion in Liberia every single year.

This data demonstrates that the abortion section in the bill would introduce a very big change to our legislation here in Liberia and would directly lead to the death of thousands of innocent babies through abortion in Liberia.

The Swedish government and other foreign NGOs have been creating and funding organizations in Liberia (particularly the Amplifying Rights Network) to lobby for the legalization of abortion. Foreign Government interference in the democratic process of Liberia is totally unacceptable and a form of neo-colonialism that you must reject.

Please take action and contact senators to scrap the extreme abortion section in the Public Health Bill.

Sources and calculations for points made above:

40,000 abortions estimate
- One in four (25%) of pregnancies ends in abortion in Sweden where abortion is available on demand (https://gateway.euro.who.int/en/indicators/hfa_586-7010-abortions-per-1000-live-births/visualizations/#id=19681&tab=table shows 316 abortions for every 1k live births).
- There are at least 170,000 pregnancies in Liberia per year (https://statisticstimes.com/demographics/country/liberia-demographics.php).
- If 25% of pregnancies in Liberia ended in abortion, there would be at least 42,500 abortions per a year.
The Swedish government’s involvement:

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