Rights, fish ban
Equality for women
THE recent article about fathers in Nairai, Lomaiviti, filing their grievances in an effort to have control on their wives’ decision on not having a child was so shocking to read in this day and age.
I was lost for words on the lack of equality for women in our country.
This is a basic right that women should not have to fight for. Having a child is not as simple as ejaculating in a woman.
It is the nine months of carrying the child through term, dealing with the pregnancy symptoms, it’s the painful child birth. Women also do the cooking and cleaning for the family. Some of these women have jobs to go to.
They also do majority of the child care once it is born.
It’s infuriating to read such ignorance coming from these women’s life partners.
The perspective these men have on their wives’ rights sounds like these women are not human beings, but an equipment to manufacture children which the men will not feed, bathe or take care of, but play with the child for a few minutes a day thinking they have done their duty as a father.
Women assess their capacity to be a mother therefore, plan when they want to get pregnant which... is their absolute right!
If it helps to understand why it is so wrong to even suggest that men have a say in their wives’ decision to take birth control pills, imagine women going to the health ministry asking their husbands to get vasectomies.
Just as a man has a right to decide if he does or does not want the ability to have a child, women have this right too. I agree with the Fiji Women’s Rights Movement’s comments on this matter that was published on June 13, 2022.
“Women not properties”, that one of the leading causes of death for women is reproductive cancers.
We should focus on women’s reproductive health and making resources
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