Worried over the problem of
infertility and childlessness, a team of researchers from the Nigerian
Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER), Ibadan has called on
the Federal Government to, as a matter of urgency, establish sperm banks
in the country and encourage anonymous donors of sperms and female eggs
to such banks.
The
research team has also canvassed an aggressive advocacy and public
sensitization for the Government to provide medical, legal and social
support for women seeking to have children of their own “because women’s
exclusion / marginalization does not occur in isolation, rather it is
connected to other forms of legal and social exclusion.”
This
was part of the recommendations of the monthly NISER Research Seminar
Series (NRSS) for October titled “Women Bigamists in Southeast Nigeria:
The Social Contradictions of the Feminist Struggles”.
Presenting
the paper, Dr. Amaka Theresa Oriaku Emordi of the Department of
Political Science, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife advocated the
enactment of a law that would ensure that “the problem of infertility is
not a lonely road for infertile women, but a problem that should be
handled by both individuals involved, that is, the husband and wife.”
Specifically,
she called for adequate protection by the law and adequate provision
for the administration of justice against dehumanizing treatment on
childless women especially in the rural villages.
She
also canvassed for a law abolishing boy child syndrome and elevate the
social status of the girl through educational policy arguing that every
child has a destiny and should be seen as a gift from the almighty
creator.
By: Dele Ogunyemi, Ibadan
Daily Trust News
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