Misinformation tanked Clause 11 of the Medical Services Amendment Bill after Senators bought into overblown claims about legalizing abortion on demand.
Edwin Mushoriwa's take on Clause 11
Edwin Mushoriwa's take on Clause 11
- Edwin Mushoriwa said false narratives gutted the clause.
- Religious groups allegedly never read the actual text.
- Mushoriwa backed the bill in the National Assembly initially.
- It aimed to sync a 1977 law with the 2013 Constitution.
- Abortion-on-demand framing was flat-out wrong per Mushoriwa.
- Existing legal grounds for termination stayed unchanged.
- Traditional leaders in the Senate pushed for the deletion.
- The bill got bounced back to the National Assembly.
