You know ...Brewer & Masukuma
the term 'trained health professional' is used instead of 'trained medical doctor' because ...if you live in this country you know that there is shortage of Doctors with some district hospitals having only one or no Medical Doctor .....If we leave the the exception to 'Doctors' only , many women with involuntary miscarriages will die ...since nurses and clinical officers will not help them when they seek assistance to complete the involuntary miscarriages....

I hope you know that miscarriages do occur..
.daily ...and miscarriage is an abortion...do you?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscarriage

(I may add this shortage is because of the current bad constitution which does not give doctors trained in the country a chance to enjoy the fruits of their hard labour...hence brain drain)

Brewer .... are you people really pro-life? if a miscarriage which is by definition an abortion..... should not be terminated for the sake of the woman ?....would you wish to lose both your wife and the baby ....when losing the baby only could safe the wife?...the foetus would die anyway?


just for your information


Miscarriage or spontaneous abortion is the spontaneous end of a pregnancy at a stage where the embryo or fetus is incapable of surviving, generally defined in humans at prior to 20 weeks of gestation. Miscarriage is the most common complication of early pregnancy

and which part is not convincing ...just take a tour to the nearest district hospital and investigate how many medical doctors there are then let us know here.?..

and Yes, while Abortion prohibited in the draft ....it is permitted on special grounds for the sake of the womans health...ever heard of ectopic pregnancy ...
this can happen to any woman...and there will be no time to find out if it is legal of illegal to terminate that pregnancy

And suppose the constitution just ended at 'abortion is not permitted by law'..? what would be the fate of those women who face miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies ?

I've come to learn that when churches learn they are as human as Mary Magdalene, they will teach more faith, hope, love as instructed (not no abortion)

Two points:
1. Much as we're agreed to condemn the woman who aborts, I see no concerted effort to include a framework to allow for the woman unconditional care and love, medical treatment during pregnancy, and adoption for the child born.

2. Witness controversy when Bishop in Brazil excommunicated mother and doctor, after rape of nine year old girl by her stepfather. I read a report by the doctor who carried out the abortion - it was a difficult decision for him because of this faith, threats, and looming excommunication. In my opinion as a sinner, he showed most love.
http://www.time.com/time.../0,8599,1883598,00.html

Still @Masukuma
Were we consulted when they included Kadhis in 1963 constitution..

The year is 1963, The whole continent is on change..independence and all.followed by the coups and counter coups..
Here is a British Protectorate landlocked... and the Sultans/Mazruis islands and coastal strips...the Shiftas in the North are blazing war to secceed into Somalia..

Question is would you have rathered plans for independence be halted till your grandfathers upcountry were educated and then asked to vote in a referendum, if the crucial coastal strip should be intergrated into the main land, or we simply end up landlocked?

The other alternative was to return the coast to the Sultanis, as a country (as Zanzibar was before Quasi-union with Tangayika) or give it quite some good autonomy(MAJIMBO)..

as much as the clergy have turned this matter religious, they need to read up some history as well.... i repeat, so far we have done so good as watu wa Bara assimilating and owning pieces of land at the cost..but truth be said..HIYO KIPANDE YA SHAMBA SIO YETU...