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Investment in education, security and empowerment comes with development. We can’t develop with the current mindset of Malawians and Africans in general. You would be surprised and disappointed that today, girls as young as 14 are being married off to old men by their proudly-African-cultural-custodian kinsmen. If we have to “adress the ROOT cause not the symptom” then we have to focus on how we can develop as a people first rather than going around policing what people do in theit bedrooms and with their lives. Otherwise, I bet you we are going nowhere, decades later we will still be… Read more »
Malawian Thinker, I agree with you absolutely that education is on of the way to free the mind. However its important that , “While education makes one knowledgeable, it is not to everybody that it removes foolishness”; “Some people go through education and others education go through them”. A law like that of abortion will open a door to indiscriminate termination. Know that there are so me would be aborted, “first borns, out-of wedlock children”, who are big shots in society just because their parents chose not to abort. Not all children that come out of unplanned pregnancies develop to… Read more »
@Ndumanene Silungwe Investment in education, security and empowerment comes with development. We can’t develop with the current mindset of Malawians and Africans in general. You would be surprised and disappointed that today, girls as young as 14 are being married off to old men by their proudly-African-cultural-custodian kinsmen. If we have to “adress the ROOT cause not the symptom” then we have to focus on how we can develop as a people first rather than going around policing what people do in theit bedrooms and with their lives. Otherwise, I bet you we are going nowhere, decades later we will… Read more »
people right now people are carrying out abortions at will with the poor using cassava stems and die while the rich go to private clinics and live so why not level the playing field pass this bill and let those who decide to carry out abortion do it. The church and the mosque should preach to the people that abortion is a sin before GOD those who indulge in it will perish . The battle is for the LORD Amen.
@Ndumanene Silungwe Investment in education, security and empowerment comes with development. We can’t develop with the current mindset of Malawians and Africans in general. You would be surprised and disappointed that today, girls as young as 14 are being married off to old men by their proudly-African-cultural-custodian kinsmen. If we have to “adress the ROOT cause not the symptom” then we have to focus on how we can develop as a people first rather than going around policing what people do in theit bedrooms and with their lives. Otherwise, I bet you we are going nowhere, decades later we will… Read more »
@Ndumanene Silungwe. Investment in education, security and empowerment comes with development. We can’t develop with the current mindset of Malawians and Africans in general. You would be surprised and disappointed that today, girls as young as 14 are being married off to old men by their proudly-African-cultural-custodian kinsmen. If we have to “adress the ROOT cause not the symptom” then we have to focus on how we can develop as a people first rather than going around policing what people do in theit bedrooms and with their lives. Otherwise, I bet you we are going nowhere, decades later we will… Read more »
What a powerful defence! It is through a corruption of life’s meaning that has made many to demean living.When man is just mass of tissue devoid of life(living soul) he is indeed lost.He treats himself as trash.How then can he learn to value gifts of life (babies).? A secular or Humanistic view of life is rooted is selfishness. If killing(abortion) is bein inhumane then what is humane abt these killings. I hear thy invoke words like incest, rape ……to perfect their justfication to appeal to believers to accept legalising abortion.Its suprisingly funny how they fail to reconcile the number of… Read more »
One thing I hate about you religious right-wing hypocrites is that “You don’t care about children. You care about fetuses”. Once those fetuses begin to breath outside the womb, your concern is gone if they’re born into a poor family that needs help. Or how about poor children who are in school. let’s not even talk about free food for kids. What is wrong with you people??? There is no better investment that we can make as a nation than in the early childhood health of our children. While those young children roam around town without shoes, not even talking… Read more »
The problem is not about religious people, the problem is both the society we are living in, in terms of crime and insecurity which result into some people falling victim of sexual crimes and secondly the problem is immature decisions and irresponsibility that have people that are not ready to take care of children having them. Invest in education and make people empowered and in security and make people protected!!! Abortion legislation is treating a symptom not the ROOT! Address the root cause of a problem.
Investment in education, security and empowerment comes with development. We can’t develop with the current mindset of Malawians and Africans in general. You would be surprised and disappointed that today, girls as young as 14 are being married off to old men by their proudly-African-cultural-custodian kinsmen. If we have to “adress the ROOT cause not the symptom” then we have to focus on how we can develop as a people first rather than going around policing what people do in theit bedrooms and with their lives. Otherwise, I bet you we are going nowhere, decades later we will still be… Read more »
Investment in education, security and empowerment comes with development. We can’t develop with the current mindset of Malawians and Africans in general. You would be surprised and disappointed that today, girls as young as 14 are being married off to old men by their proudly-African-cultural-custodian kinsmen. If we have to “adress the ROOT cause not the symptom” then we have to focus on how we can develop as a people first rather than going around policing what people do in theit bedrooms and with their lives. Otherwise, I bet you we are going nowhere, decades later we will still be… Read more »
Investment in education, security and empowerment comes with development. We can’t develop with the current mindset of Malawians and Africans in general. You would be surprised and disappointed that today, girls as young as 14 are being married off to old men by their proudly-African-cultural-custodian kinsmen. If we have to “adress the ROOT cause not the symptom” then we have to focus on how we can develop as a people first rather than going around policing what people do in theit bedrooms and with their lives. Otherwise, I bet you we are going nowhere, decades later we will still be… Read more »
Investment in education, security and empowerment comes with development. We can’t develop with the current mindset of Malawians and Africans in general. You would be surprised and disappointed that today, girls as young as 14 are being married off to old men by their proudly-African-cultural-custodian kinsmen. If we have to “adress the ROOT cause not the symptom” then we have to focus on how we can develop as a people first rather than going around policing what people do in theit bedrooms and with their lives. Otherwise, I bet you we are going nowhere, decades later we will still be… Read more »
Investment in education, security and empowerment comes with development. We can’t develop with the current mindset of Malawians and Africans in general. You would be surprised and disappointed that today, girls as young as 14 are being married off to old men by their proudly-African-cultural-custodian kinsmen. If we have to “adress the ROOT cause not the symptom” then we have to focus on how we can develop as a people first rather than going around policing what people do in theit bedrooms and with their lives. Otherwise, I bet you we are going nowhere, decades later we will still be… Read more »
What does it mean to be secular? In his book A Secular Age, Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor identified three different forms of secularism. First, secularism can mean the complete removal of God and religion from the public sphere. France has this version of secularism. Children attending government-funded schools in France are prohibited from wearing overt religious symbols – as are public officials. This version of secularism is sometimes described as a strict separation of church and state, or in France as laïcité. This form of secularism does not necessarily mean a decrease in religious belief by the population. Instead, religion… Read more »
Well defined, Thank you. And yet as you have concluded, it is truly a wachiona ndani situation? Thus even to make a conclusion that Malawi is a SECULAR STATE begs the question of what is a RELIGIOUS STATE? In which case, a number of the similar definitions as the ones above will emerge – from completely religious, somehow religious, low religious. Can’t you then agree with me that even countries that call themselves CHRISTIAN or ISLAMIC do not meet there touted definitions 100%? In short the third definition gives away Malawi to a highest degree of a RELIGIOUS country, not… Read more »
Well well well! I think the problem at hand is much more deeper…such that a demonstration on a bill will not result to women or girls stopping abortion. The church should ask itself hard questions such as: why is their own flock aborting pregnancies in excess of 70,000 per annum? My take is not against the church for we are indeed religious people. But the church has a much bigger challenge/role more than just the demonstrations!
I agree, I have pointed this out in the conclusion how these are difficult days. As long as the church is seen as part of the solution not a problem that is OK. An eye, ear, mouth, hand, legs must all contribute to making things happen. They are both strong and weak in their individual capacities. Aren’t they?
Well articulated post and comments indeed. But I have a problem which I need the writer of this post to guide me. If you have a situation where armed robbers find a lone woman in the house and after the robbery the woman is raped resulting into pregnancy. This woman has a husband who is in his third year in J’burg. What can be the right solution for the two(wife and husband)? Another scenario can be that a well known mad man in the area rapes your wife while you are away for a 2 months relief. After a week… Read more »
My brother, what you have indicated are RARE cases. That is the problem of INSECURITY and those that deal with issues of INSECURITY in a country must take responsibility to secure you and me. You cannot use a laxity of another responsibility holder to legislate a law elsewhere due to their incompetence. There is a much more greater syndicate and sinister agendas about anti-abortion law than meets the eye!! Talk of population engineering of certain groups etc.. Lets address the ROOTS of abortion not SIGNS and SYMPTOMS of it! Crooks will take advantage of the law to undertake abortion for… Read more »