Maputo Protocol: Who is Paying Attention?

Connie Marshner

From time to time, we hear on the news about the struggles in one country or another to legalize, or not legalize, abortion. Most recently, it was Portugal.

But nobody is hearing anything about the effort underway to legalize abortion with a stroke of a pen on an entire continent.
That’s right.

Africa.  The Maputo Protocol is set to be approved next month, and it would sneak a right to abortion provision into the charter of the African Union.

The Pope is paying attention. He condemned the Maputo Protocol back in January.

 Where is the rest of the world’s attention?