By Tarryn Le Chat3 October 2006
Christian protestors made their voices heard at an anti-abortion demonstration in central Cape Town.
About 50 protestors stood along Bruitengracht Street near the Waterfront, singing hymns and carrying boards reading “Abortions kill babies” and “Abortion is worse than apartheid”.
Christian Action network (CAN) co-ordinator Taryn Hodgson said the organisation was overjoyed that the Termination of Pregnancy Amendment Act had been struck down by the Constitutional Court in August.
Hodgson says if women are not given the proper counselling after an abortion they can have depression, guilt, grief and even develop suicidal tendencies.
Hodgson expresses her concern saying that they (CAN) certainly hope with the new act that women will be given more protection, but in the long term they definitely want the act to be struck down. They want abortion not only to be illegal, but unthinkable.
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