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Last Updated: Feb 13, 2017 - 1:45:37 AM |
Bahamians across the country watched, stunned last night as Montague MP Richard Lightbourne unveiled what he described as the plans for the country under an FNM administration. Plans which apparently include the infringement on the reproductive rights of women.
According to Mr. Lightbourne an FNM government would introduce legislation that would allow the courts to tie the tubes of unwed mothers after she has had her second child. The end game: fewer classrooms, fewer Bahamians looking for work and a state which would not have to bear the burden of too many children. If this is truly the spineless, visionless and misogynistic approach to governance that the FNM is bringing to the table, then THEY CAN KEEP IT! BAHAMIAN MOTHERS WANT NO PART of the FNM’s sexist and anti-feminist mentality.
The idea that sterilizing Bahamian women is the answer to classroom overcrowding, and high unemployment is beyond offensive. Rather than attempting to intervene in matters which he clearly knows nothing about, Mr. Lightbourne and the FNM should instead be creating the kind of legislation that empowers young Bahamian mothers in a way that allows them to take care of themselves and their children.
For his utterly disgraceful commentary on such a public platform, Mr. Lightbourne and the FNM must immediately be made to APOLOGIZE to the women of this country. FOR OUR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS the women of this country must stand against such backward thinking and demand MORE of our political leaders lest we be relegated once again to the dark ages.
Mrs. Prodesta Moore - Elizabeth
Ms. Brenda Harris - Bain & Grants Town
Mrs. Emily Williams - Marathon
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