Ezekiel Mutua CEO at the Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB) took to twitter to announce that adverts promoting abortion should stop since the activity is illegal in Kenya.
Marie Stopes has been banned by the Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board from conducting abortions in Kenya.
The board further advised the health service provider against publishing misleading information on its website.
Abortion is illegal in Kenya. No more adverts promoting the activity.#MarieStopesAbortionsBan pic.twitter.com/EzIOlaf0sa
— Dr. Ezekiel Mutua, MBS (@EzekielMutua) November 16, 2018
The facility has also been directed to submit, within 60 days, a report of the reviewed guidelines “to conform with the law.”
Led by Daniel Yumbya, the board further directed that the hospital submits weekly returns to the regulator over the next 60 days.
Marie Stopes was also blocked from running advertisements that contravene Public Health Facilities Advertising Rules, 2016.
But ladies on twitter have claimed men have taken their authority to make their own choices over their bodies.
This country really hates women yoh! All it does is, take, take and take.
Here it is, taking away choice! #MarieStopesAbortionsBan— GATHONI ?? (@QueenGathoni) November 17, 2018
It’s funny how rabid many Kenyan men are when they are policing women’s bodies.
They are currently being loud & foolish on this hashtag: #MarieStopesAbortionsBan
Notice how virulently against abortions they are but are happy to sire children & abandon them with their mothers.— Nike of Samothrace (@ElayneOkaya) November 16, 2018
Most don’t get how basic menstruation works but here they are shouting shouting about what they ‘think’ about the functioning of a uterus #MarieStopesAbortionsBan
— buddha with a booty (@awuor_ondeng) November 16, 2018
At the same time a section of Kenyans, both men and women are dissatisfied with the board’s directives with some threatening to take to the streets.
@EzekielMutua I am horrified to hear a MAN lecture WOMEN using arcane laws about, their right to choose what to do with their bodies. MEN indiscriminately impregnate WOMEN & GIRLS abandoning them to raise child alone! I support a woman’s right to choose! #MarieStopesAbortionsBan https://t.co/TnaX4yEw5k
— Tony Gachoka (@TonyGachoka) November 17, 2018
There goes the men making decisions for women, in the name of morals… again.
#MarieStopesAbortionsBan— Ramapithecus (@RamzZy_) November 16, 2018
Every woman should have a say on what grows in her belly; thus every woman must equally have a right to access to safe abortion!!! #MarieStopesAbortionsBan
— Hillary N. Ebila (@Hi_Ebila) November 16, 2018
One Wairimu however thought it was ironical that men responsible for pregnancies become dead beat dads and now are at the fore front of stopping an abortion ban.
Men are at the forefront of #MarieStopesAbortionsBan how ironical you o make the babies but don’t want to bring up the babies. When I get an abortion it’s wrong hmmm!
— wairimu kinyanjui (@wairimuk) November 16, 2018
Do you support the decision of the board to ban Marie Stops from conducting abortions?