Blantyre, 16 September, 2020 / 10:41 pm (ACI Africa).
Religious leaders in the Southeastern African nation of Malawi are contesting attempts by the country’s legislators to amend the law and legalize abortion, which they say is “genocide of unborn babies in Malawi.”
In a collective statement, the religious leaders indicate that if their contestation is ignored, they would call for unspecified “cause of action.”
“We condemn the proposed bill, which seeks to introduce direct abortions because it is gravely sinful. Life must be safeguarded with extreme care from conception; abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes,” the religious leaders say in their statement read out Monday, September 14 at a press conference.
They add, "We, the religious mother bodies in the country, would like to reiterate our position that we celebrate, protect and defend life and the dignity of the human person.”
“Human life is a fundamental value because God created human being in His own image and likeness, male and female He created them,” the religious leaders further say in their collective statement read out by the President of the Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM), Archbishop Anthony Msusa.
