One Christian conservative group helped to develop a “family values” conference with lawmakers from several African countries this year. African experts worry recent gains in abortion access could be reversed.
Sub-Saharan Africa has the world’s highest rate of unintended pregnancies, and 77% of abortions are estimated to be unsafe.
In April, Family Watch International helped to develop a “family values and sovereignty” meeting at Uganda’s presidential offices with lawmakers and other delegates from more than 20 African countries. The organization’s Africa director also is advocating for his country, Ethiopia, to revoke a 2005 law that expanded abortion access and dramatically reduced maternal mortality.
Slater is a member of Utah-based The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In June, she spoke at a church-sponsored “Strengthening Families Conference” in Nigeria about “immunizing children against modern-day pressures,” according toHer speech in Malawi was attended by the country’s president, a former leader of the Pentecostal Assemblies of God movement.
African experts say events in the U.S. could reverse gains in the availability of safe abortion procedures, especially since the U.S. government is the largest global donor of international reproductive health assistance. A sexual and reproductive health bill introduced in 2021 is still under debate by the East African Community, whose member nations include Burundi, Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Some Catholic and other conservative organizations have criticized a section that would allow a woman to terminate a pregnancy in cases of rape, incest or endangered health.
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