{"id":3236,"date":"2013-07-30T02:17:18","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T09:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=3236"},"modified":"2018-03-06T14:40:36","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T22:40:36","slug":"proposed-rwandan-law-would-legalize-abortion-make-conscientious-objection-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=3236","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Rwandan law would legalize abortion, make conscientious objection illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\u00a0<em>Law Governing Reproductive Health<\/em><\/h2>\n<p class=\"author\">Sean Murphy<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/authors.aspx#Sean_Murphy\">*<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After its approval by the Standing Committee on Social Affairs,\u00a0 Rwandan Member of Parliament Ignatienne Nyirarukundo has brought a proposed Rwandan reproductive health law before the Rwandan Chamber of Deputies for consideration.\u00a0 The bill is reported to have been initiated five years ago, and is apparently an improved version of a bill that was criticized for violating human rights, contradicting the Rwandan Constitution, and for being so badly translated that its provisions were sometimes given different meanings in different languages.\u00a0 That bill was rejected by the Rwandan senate.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, the English text of the present bill<a href=\"#003\">3<\/a> continues to suffer from defects like incoherence and inconsistency that may be the product of poor translation.\u00a0 In addition, it\u00a0 include provisions that are likely to be controversial for various reasons. 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