Sunday 27 January 2013
ABORTION,SHOULD KENYA LEGALIZE IT?
ABORTION, should we legalize it?before you support or oppose look at a research as per eaclj.org:
*85% of teenager engage in sex and do not use contraceptives
*40% of birth are unplanned and 47% are among the teenager
*310,000 abortions are done every year in Kenya only
*21,000 women are admitted due to abortion complication due to unsafe abortions
*2,600 women eventually die due to abortion
life begins at conception as per The Constitution(art 26) and anyone who causes death of another, is a crime of murder as per Penal Code section 203. The Constitution permits abortion if the life of the mother is in danger.....but what about our mothers,sister aunties and school girls who a raped by there fathers,brothers uncles(incest)?what about those girls who are gang raped by thugs? shouldn't the law also permit them to abort?
I know religious institutions are the first to throw the stone against the support of abortion, but we can say its them who have failed to guide the society with moral principles on the importance of sex after marriage,for them not supporting the use of condoms, for them not carrying civil education to the youth about sexuality.....but well,there is no time to blame each other while life of more than 312,000 Kenyans might be lost by the end of this year-2013...
My opinion is this that a law should be passed clearly permitting abortion if :
1)The life of the mother is in danger,
2)if the girl became pregnant through forceful sexual intercourse through rape or incest
3)and to a given extend, if the pregnancy was unplanned and the couple have no financial means to meet the basic needs-this is because most of these children will end up being street children and get involved in drugs & sexual activity who will again become pregnant, lead to other street children and the cycle will go on and on,of what benefit will it b having streets full of street children hence increase crime and drug abuse?
4)and the law should state it clearly that any couple(both the father and mother) who undertake unlawful abortion due to their reckless sexual behavior they should be found guilty of murder.
because honestly, we can not continue losing our mothers & sisters due to unsafe abortions done on them....the church should also teach the society of the important moral principles on sexuality and schools and education centers should teach their students on the dangers and consequences of reckless sexual behavior
BUT,in any case if the government refuses to legalize abortion its my opinion also it should set up children homes where if a girl is raped and is financially unable to meet the needs of the child the child can be taken to these homes and stay there and can be adopted by another couple or can stay their until the lady is able to meet her needs and can pick the child at that time.
well,whether u support or oppose one thing you should know is life is a right to every man but whose life is important putting all factors in consideration..the mother's or the child's life?.....if your mother was the sole bread winner of your family and she is pregnant and due to health complication his pregnancy if not terminated she will die.....would you prefer her to die and live you as a street child since you have no means to provide for yourself or her to keep her pregnancy and later die together with the child in his womb...all in all LETS RESPECT LIFE.
Tuesday 15 January 2013
ITS JUST MY OPINION: ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY
ITS JUST MY OPINION: ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY: last year on 19th December 2012 the High Court slapped six officers with the death sentence after they were found guilty by Justice Ochien...
ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY
last year on 19th December 2012 the High Court slapped six officers with the death sentence after they were found guilty by Justice Ochieng of killing seven taxi drivers on March 11, 2010 on Naivasha Road in Kawangware, Nairobi.i really thank the court for putting "justice" in action since its quite rare for police officers to be found guilty of an offence, many time the case just ends and the police are released free to go,but this time the trend changed.
But we are in the 21st century the 2013, i think its a high time the death penalty be removed from the Kenyan statutes law and also the constitution should support the same.
i do know the last time the death sentence was implemented was in 1987 and it was Hezekiah Rabala Ochuka after the attempted coup failed and he was found guilty since he was the master mind and he was hanged in Kamiti maximum prison.
Right to life is a right that should be respected by everyone and everything even the law itself.the Constitution of Kenya-2010, Article 26(3) that states about right to life states :A person shall not be deprived of life intentionally, except to the extent authorized by this Constitution or other written law. the constitution should state it clearly that the written laws exclude punishing criminal offenders .this is because a research done at different intervals by different criminologist shows that most criminals prefer the death sentence than the life imprisonment sentence.the reasoning of this research is that a criminal can perform any worse of the worse offence as long as he know if he is caught he will be hanged and his life will end there, but if a criminal knows he will spend the rest of his life in prison he will fear because of the loneliness and the solitude he will experience while alone in the prison.in my opinion life imprisonment is a better deterrent to crime than the death penalty,the criminologist continue to say that criminals if place in the right environment, they will reform since humans are naturally good but due to the environment they grow in they mentally change into inhuman behavior. in this sense i think Kenya should reform the prisons and create sections where the worst of the worst prisoners will be kept and the right environment be created and hence give them an opportunity to reform and join the society again or continue with life imprisonment,this is because some of these criminals, became so because of the violent up bringing environment which they grew in. may be their parents were fighting violently every now and then or they grew in a society where people killed each other anyhow and hence they developed the mentally that for them to survive in these world they have to use violence hence becoming hard-co criminals yet its not their fault.
so far Kenya has 1,440 prisoners sentenced to death(as per the penal reform organisation) and this prisoners are been subjected to unreasonable mental anguish and suffering,psychological trauma and anxiety after extended stay on the death row and thus is a violation of human dignity and the state is indirectly discriminating them which are serious offences in the bill of rights.because how would you feel if a person told you he/she is going to kill you brutally and painfully one day one time and he does not say when..how will you fill as you move from day to day with that fear that one day you will be killed brutally and painfully...and that's how prisoners fell while waiting for that unknown day to reach.
Kenya has abolished the death sentence by de facto(by fact or by practice) but one day who knows it may be applied and thats why it has to be abolished by all statutes and supported by the constitution.LETS GIVE PRISONERS ANOTHER CHANCE, LETS RESPECT LIFE.
But we are in the 21st century the 2013, i think its a high time the death penalty be removed from the Kenyan statutes law and also the constitution should support the same.
i do know the last time the death sentence was implemented was in 1987 and it was Hezekiah Rabala Ochuka after the attempted coup failed and he was found guilty since he was the master mind and he was hanged in Kamiti maximum prison.
Right to life is a right that should be respected by everyone and everything even the law itself.the Constitution of Kenya-2010, Article 26(3) that states about right to life states :A person shall not be deprived of life intentionally, except to the extent authorized by this Constitution or other written law. the constitution should state it clearly that the written laws exclude punishing criminal offenders .this is because a research done at different intervals by different criminologist shows that most criminals prefer the death sentence than the life imprisonment sentence.the reasoning of this research is that a criminal can perform any worse of the worse offence as long as he know if he is caught he will be hanged and his life will end there, but if a criminal knows he will spend the rest of his life in prison he will fear because of the loneliness and the solitude he will experience while alone in the prison.in my opinion life imprisonment is a better deterrent to crime than the death penalty,the criminologist continue to say that criminals if place in the right environment, they will reform since humans are naturally good but due to the environment they grow in they mentally change into inhuman behavior. in this sense i think Kenya should reform the prisons and create sections where the worst of the worst prisoners will be kept and the right environment be created and hence give them an opportunity to reform and join the society again or continue with life imprisonment,this is because some of these criminals, became so because of the violent up bringing environment which they grew in. may be their parents were fighting violently every now and then or they grew in a society where people killed each other anyhow and hence they developed the mentally that for them to survive in these world they have to use violence hence becoming hard-co criminals yet its not their fault.
so far Kenya has 1,440 prisoners sentenced to death(as per the penal reform organisation) and this prisoners are been subjected to unreasonable mental anguish and suffering,psychological trauma and anxiety after extended stay on the death row and thus is a violation of human dignity and the state is indirectly discriminating them which are serious offences in the bill of rights.because how would you feel if a person told you he/she is going to kill you brutally and painfully one day one time and he does not say when..how will you fill as you move from day to day with that fear that one day you will be killed brutally and painfully...and that's how prisoners fell while waiting for that unknown day to reach.
Kenya has abolished the death sentence by de facto(by fact or by practice) but one day who knows it may be applied and thats why it has to be abolished by all statutes and supported by the constitution.LETS GIVE PRISONERS ANOTHER CHANCE, LETS RESPECT LIFE.
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