Thank goodness we have moved on from the times when otherwise intelligent beings would question the relevance of decisions taken in one part of the world, such as the USA, impact on another, for instance Kenya.
Today most people with a modicum of understanding of how the world works fully appreciate that old saw: No person is an island.
We live in a world where whatever we do in all spheres of our lives, be it social, political, economic or environmental, has an impact on everyone else whether we like it or not.
If the Covid-19 pandemic taught us anything, this worldwide web of interconnectivity must be one of the main lessons. Similarly the effects of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine on the world’s pocket.
Because of this interconnectedness I can assume that I don’t really have to explain to anybody how the US Supreme Court's historic decision to reverse the half century old Roe vs Wade judgment affects the whole world and especially those countries, like ours, that receive aid from the US.
But just in case there is someone reading this who just doesn't get it, let me just say that the decision made by American politicians who feel they have the right to dictate to women what they may and may not do with their bodies, will have an impact on you too.
Not only do those same politicians dictate what happens in their own country, they also have a say what happens in ours because our poor choices through the last 60 years or so mean that we are always going to the Americans begging for whatever crumbs they will sell us or lend us from their table.
So when we need funding for our reproductive health programmes, those senators and Congressional representatives who decide who runs the US Supreme Court and who are jubilating in the reversal of Roe vs Wade will be the same folk who tell you to enforce restrictions on abortion services.
We saw in 2013 how they used their influence to reverse the constitutional right of Kenyan women and girls to access to abortion service when a medical professional decides that either their health or their life is in danger.
It took six years and a High Court case to return to the constitutional status quo, in which time nobody can say for certain how many Kenyan women’s lives were adversely affected. And here I must say we are talking about the ones who are aware they have these rights in the first place.
As a conversational aside: While health, rape and incest are obviously hugely valid and understandable reasons for abortion, the idea that a girl or a woman simply does not want to be a parent should be reason enough to grant an abortion.
Already the usual suspects on Twitter and other online spaces have taken the US Supreme Court’s decision as doing the bidding of their deities.
Frankly the less said about such nonsense the better, but if people are going to run around quoting the books written by committees like the Bible to back their views on abortion, then perhaps we need to sanction not women but men.
This is because as far as the tale of Onan in the biblical book of Genesis is concerned, life begins at the point of seminal ejaculation.
If that is the case then the lawmakers should get busy crafting laws to punish all men who “spill their seed” anywhere but in that place where they will fertilise a woman’s eggs.
Can you imagine the chaos that would ensue. The police would be given license to arrest all Onanists.
There would be cases in court trying to determine whether people with the condition azoospermia, in other words those who don’t have sperm in their semen were exempt from such laws.
If all this sounds pretty silly to you, imagine how banal your nonesense about control of women’s bodies sounds to those of us who do not think like you.
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