From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #14492 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Tuesday, August 20 2024 Volume 14 : Number 14492 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Keep Your Cool and Save Big with ChillWell AC ["The ChillWell Team" Subject: Keep Your Cool and Save Big with ChillWell AC Keep Your Cool and Save Big with ChillWell AC http://nuubuupatches.za.com/rx7n77eWtdNFykOtOFYGs5ofYAjWX3BViBVYezG0LZKd3bN9Qw http://nuubuupatches.za.com/VwTdIAEavTpCjZlbsu4aq2Vw5rmRqqjONWVzoBP13woQ2zKUlg sed the act. President Ernest Bai Koroma refused to sign the bill and sent it back to parliament on 6 January 2016. The speaker of the house refused to give the bill his assent. Parliament returned the unchanged bill to the president on 11 February. Koroma blocked the bill again and referred it to the Constitutional Review Committee so it could put changes to the Constitution to a referendum. The law would have allowed abortion during the first twelve weeks of pregnancy on request or twenty-four weeks in cases of pregnancy from rape or incest or risk to health of the mother or fetus. It said minors could have abortions with parental consent. It mandated a four-year jail sentence for conducting unlicensed abortions. Koroma and his wife, Sia Koroma, initially supported the bill's introduction, and the public expected it to pass. Meetings with religious groups influenced his opposition to the law. Koroma asked for Parliament to review the law since the Maputo Protocol only provided for abortion in the cases of rape and medical emergencies. In an address on International Women's Day, he argued that the law violated the right to life and that it did not clearly define its scope. Opposition politicians claimed that Koroma was building up support ahead of the upcoming election and that he planned to negate the term limit to run for another term. Public opinion in Sierra Leone was against the bill. Some groups called for the withdrawal of the bill due to Christian and Islamic beliefs that condemn abortion. Opponents included the Inter-Religious Council of Sierra Leone (IRCSL) and the country's Pentecostal church. The IRCSL was influenced by the Catholic Church, which argued that abortion violated a clause in the Constitution that said, "No person shall be deprived of his life intentionally". The president of the IRCSL, Sheikh Abu Bakarr Conteh, said that the law should consider the rights of the sexual partner and the family of the woman getting an abortion. In January 2016, religious groups led a protest in which hundreds of people marched to the House of Parliament. Catholic leaders voiced opposition to the law more frequently than Muslim leaders. Proponents of the bill said that unsafe abortions were a large contributor to maternal mortality in Sierra Leone, which was the highest in the world, and that the law would support victims of rape and sexual violence. Groups such as AdvocAid said that the anti-abortion law was largely unenforced yet led to unsafe abortions being common. In January 2016, alongside the anti-abortion protest, dozens of peop ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #14492 ***********************************************