We are appalled at the indifference that your Attorney General’s Chambers has shown to our constitutional challenge to our criminal abortion law.
The reproductive health of poor women and girls is being put at risk while the AG’s Chambers toys with legal procedural niceties.
At least twice (2020 and 2022) your leading legal officer spoke of the need to change the law.
Still, when we wrote to him in 2022 asking for a clarification of the law, we received no reply.
Yet, in 2024, when we approached the High Court, the same authority who voluntarily said the law should be changed, asked the Court to dismiss the challenge because the law had been repealed in 1995. Amazing.
The High Court ruled in favour of the claimants. Now, the AG’s Chambers, determined to obstruct, is digging ever deeper into legal precedent, appealing the Court’s ruling and asking for a new judge.
Really?
If the law was indeed repealed in 1995, then abortion is no longer criminal. Why didn’t the AG simply advise us of this in 2022? Why not do so now?
Hon. Prime Minister, as primus inter pares, where do you stand? Are you also aligned with this convoluted commitment to extending hardship on poor women and girls?
Let’s cut to the chase. If your Cabinet is representative of the people of the state, then there is a reasonable likelihood that about 70% of them have been engaged in arranging at least one abortion with a physician. Why keep this privilege to yourselves?
Is yours a government of the people or a government of the privileged?
2025 is the 30th anniversary of the liberal abortion law in Guyana. The abortion rate has fallen by 20%, the unintended pregnancy rate is lower by 28% (Guttmacher Institute), and most important, maternal mortality has plummeted by 41% (World Bank). Where is our Minister of Health?
Which is a better measure of the sanctity of life, Prime Minister: (i) A criminal law you cannot enforce and a high abortion rate? Or (ii) liberal, legal abortion and far fewer abortions? Is form more important than function?
Which is a better indicator of the moral fabric of society, Hon. Prime Minister: (i) Pride in a criminal law that festers such criminal violence that governments must rely on the state violence of States of Emergency as we have in Jamaica and Trinidad? (ii) Or legal abortion that nurtures the lowest crime rate in a decade as President Irfaan Ali recently announced in Guyana? Is appearance more important than substance?
Why is your AG’s Chambers so determined to prevent us from having our day in Court?
We sincerely hope you will end these wretched shenanigans.
We are pro-choice because we are pro-life.
Sincerely,
ASPIRE
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Am surprised at anyone who is surprised at anything that comes outta the ablp. When will youcfolks understand and comprehend…dem na k.
Biden recently lost his bid for a second term based largely on Satan’s present-day agenda – the open and legal was to discard the fifth commandment, THOU SHALL NOT KILL. NO woman or manshould be granted the right to kill, period, especially when that victim is a helpless child in the mother’s womb. Send those satanic liberals packing post haste!!!
What about the rights of the little women? About 50% of unborn persons are female you know…They will never have any rights if we leave it to you
You have the RIGHT not to have sex. The RIGHT to use a condom, a RIGHT to take oral birth control, the RIGHT to ask your partner to pull out.
Most women have abortions because of irresponsibility. Y’all sleeping with broke men who don’t want y’all and then act like you have no CHOICE in avoiding this situation.
Just an abundance of bad decision- making.
Y’all damn disgusting talking about “women’s rights.” Yet if y’all have a miscarriage, y’all want pity. A baby only has value when y’all “want” it.
Go phuck y’all selves… at least that way y’all will avoid pregnancy.
@womens rights … And what about the destroyed lives of the little (and no so young) women who have been raped & abused for some hardback man’s pleasure?
You are sentencing them to being shunned and deemed ‘less than’ by society, to carrying a child to term that they cannot or wish not to care for as it only reminds them of the hell they have been put through, and will continue to live in.
What about the women who have medical conditions that threaten their life if they continue with the pregnancy?
Would you impose this hell on your Daughter, Sister, Mother, Aunt, Female friend?
Please, have compassion and understanding.
It has nothing to do with reproductive rights and everything to do with the sanctity of life. The life growing with a woman also has rights. It’s interesting that we use all these so-called politically correct terms to sanction MURDER! I can understand if the life of a mother is in danger but many women who seek abortions is because of irresponsible behavior. These babies are viewed as an inconvenience. We CANNOT create life and so should not have to right to take life under the guise of “reproductive rights”. Stop the madness! America is going to hell in a hand basket and all we’re seeking to do is emulate them. I hope that the government continues to protect the most vulnerable among us which are these innocent babies!
“Hon. Prime Minister, as primus inter pares, where do you stand? Are you also aligned with this convoluted commitment to extending hardship on poor women and girls?”
Dear ASPIRE,
If a woman / girl is a victim rape, incest or the life of the mother is at risk then by all means ABORT!!
Outside of the despicable acts or rape and incest, how are these poor women and girls getting pregnant??!!! Are we really accepting that women and girls can’t be held accountable for anything? Even their choices?
What is the state of sex education within the school system and women empowerment organisations?
How many cases are there of people charged for seeking and or performing abortions last year? As we are aware abortions are performed here all the time. Got pregnant not keeping the baby.. abortion
What exactly are you getting at?
This is very interesting…..I so want to see how this plays out…specifically IF there is a response..
Dear ASPIRE,
You are wasting your time to expect Our Prime Minister or Attorney General to Take A Step in Regard to THIS Important Matter…….
……. Why do I say THIS?
I am SURE that NO ACTION will be taken BECAUSE when the Opportunity was Presented in The PEOPLE’S Parliament to CHANGE The OATH of ALLEGIANCE from “Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, Her Heirs and Successors, according to law” .,,,To “The People, The Constitution And Laws of ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA” …….. Our GOVERNMENT (hence CABINET) Refused to CHANGE IT’S ALLEGIANCE to US – THE PEOPLE!!!
THIS Change is Such A “LOW HANGING FRUIT” …… requiring ONLY 2/3 of the Sitting Members Of Parliament Present ……. And OUR CABINET MINISTERS Seated In Our Parliament REFUSED to CHANGE THEIR ALLEGIANCE from A British Ruler who Does Not even Know WE EXIST …… To US — THE PEOPLE, Our CONSTITUTION (which is Need of so many CHANGES) And Our LAWS!!!!!
Is THIS The Action of A CARING GOVERNMENT????
Such PERSONS Care only for THEMSELVES AND THOSE IN THEIR Space!!!
Do Not Hold Your Breath ASPIRE ….. You will NEVER Hear from Our Prime Minister On THIS MATTER ……
We CANNOT FORCE What Is Not present in These People. THEY ONLY CARE for THOSE Persons Who Are Of Their Kind ……
…….. I Truly Wish That “We THE PEOPLE” of THIS Nation Would “Wake Up” to THIS TRUTH ….. And QUICKLY Do Something To CHANGE The PRESENT Status Quo!!!
The UPP’s “BREED ME” will not like to hear this at all.
They should all have the children they do not want and cannot feed and drop them off for the State to mind. Or maybe one of the pious commenters will take it up to foster/raise/adopt these children.
Don’t want abortion? Ok, the plight of the hungry maybe neglected children WILL become your problem. TAN RIGHT DEY PLAY RIGHTEOUS.
Bout you have the right to ask the man to “pull out”. Are you dumb?