ATTORNEY GENERAL CARL BETHEL
NASSAU, Bahamas — There are no plans to make abortion legal in The Bahamas, Attorney General Carl Bethel said yesterday in response to questions over claims made by a senior health official at the 71st Session of the Committee on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in Geneva last week, The Tribune reported on October 30.
Mr Bethel, when contacted yesterday, denied the position put forth by Sherry Armbrister, senior nursing officer in the Ministry of Health, was in line with the working agenda of the Minnis administration.
“I have no knowledge of any plans to address the legal nature of abortions in the Bahamas; no plans as far as I am aware,” he said.
Addressing the international forum in Geneva, Switzerland last Thursday, Ms Armbrister revealed the government was working on a patients’ bill of rights that would address the right of women in the Bahamas to have abortions if they so wished.
Ms Armbrister implied that a substantial bill of rights was being fine-tuned and could head to Parliament, with a view to pave the way for, among other things, a youth emancipation framework and the right for women to have abortions. http://www.tribune242.com/news/2018/oct/29/govt-denies-move-abortion-law/
