The Anambra State House of Assembly has passed a bill banning marriages involving people living with sickle cell anemia or incompatible genotypes.

The bill, sponsored by the member representing Anaocha II state constituency, Charles Ezeani and 15 others, seeks to eradicate sickle cell disease in the state by checkmating marriages among people with incompatible genotypes.

The law to be cited as Sickle Cell Disease Control and Eradication Repeal law, barred parents, guardians, traditional rulers or group of persons from giving out their children/wards in marriages without presentation of a certificate of verification by a qualified sickle cell expert of their genotypes.

It also provided that no religious body or marriage registry shall perform Holy Matrimony without first demanding and obtaining sickle cell disease prevention certificate from intending couples.

The law stated, “Anybody who contravenes the provisions of this section shall be guilty of an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of N200,000 or imprisonment to a term of three years or both.”

The law when it becomes effective shall also put in place a monitoring committee to ensure compliance.

Speaking, the co-sponsor of the bill, Charles Ezeani, described the law as life-saving.

He said, “The development would put a stop to the notion that love is blind by ensuring that intending couples must present their genotype test before marriage.”

Ezeani commended the Speaker of the Assembly, Mrs Rita Maduagwu and other members of the Assembly for being the first to pass such health enhancement bill into law in the country.

The National Coordinator of People Living with Sickle Cell Disease, APLSCD, Aisha Edwards, who was also at the assembly, thanked the lawmakers for enacting the law.

She said the law above other things bars all forms of discriminatory practices against carriers of the disease, both in employment and admission into schools.

Source: https://dailypost.ng/2019/05/01/anambra-assembly-passes-law-banning-marriage-among-sickle-cell-carriers/amp/

Good thinking Good product.


THE LIGHT OF THE NATION

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.....

Don't deny people their basic human right

This is a very good step to take.

It is high time people know the difference between wickedness and loving blindly.
Why decide to bring children that will suffer in pains almost all the years of their life to this world on the cover of I LOVE MY SPOUSE?
That is not LOVE, it is nothing but sheer wickedness and selfishness!

This is a very good step in the right direction.

Hehehe

This is interesting

And I'm planning to settle down with my girlfriend soon.
We are both at risk and we are considering doing prenatal diagnosis that may lead to abortion if we discover that the coming child is SS.

What's people's take on procedure like this?
The psychological effect and religious view.


I need advice please

post=78022249:
This is a very good step to take.

It is high time people know the difference between wickedness and loving blindly.
Why decide to bring children that will suffer in pains almost all the years of their life to this world on the cover of I LOVE MY SPOUSE?
That is not LOVE, it is nothing but sheer wickedness and selfishness!

This is a very good step in the right direction.

Maybe I'll call this ignorance and poverty mentality.


For your information, there are ways of preventing this


PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS
IVF
BONE MARROW TRANSPLANT ETC
RANGES FROM 300K TO 4 MILLION NAIRA

Make dem "Develop" the medicine to cure ma na... So it's gonna be a crime to fall in love, abi?

Foolish Okoro Savages!

Good...

They should also pass a bill on the number of kids a couple should have or the number of times a couple should copulate in a month..

What a silly law. What is they can afford IVF??

obembet:
The Anambra State House of Assembly has passed a bill banning marriages involving people living with sickle cell anemia or incompatible genotypes.

The bill, sponsored by the member representing Anaocha II state constituency, Charles Ezeani and 15 others, seeks to eradicate sickle cell disease in the state by checkmating marriages among people with incompatible genotypes.

The law to be cited as Sickle Cell Disease Control and Eradication Repeal law, barred parents, guardians, traditional rulers or group of persons from giving out their children/wards in marriages without presentation of a certificate of verification by a qualified sickle cell expert of their genotypes.

It also provided that no religious body or marriage registry shall perform Holy Matrimony without first demanding and obtaining sickle cell disease prevention certificate from intending couples.

The law stated, “Anybody who contravenes the provisions of this section shall be guilty of an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of N200,000 or imprisonment to a term of three years or both.”

The law when it becomes effective shall also put in place a monitoring committee to ensure compliance.

Speaking, the co-sponsor of the bill, Charles Ezeani, described the law as life-saving.

He said, “The development would put a stop to the notion that love is blind by ensuring that intending couples must present their genotype test before marriage.”

Ezeani commended the Speaker of the Assembly, Mrs Rita Maduagwu and other members of the Assembly for being the first to pass such health enhancement bill into law in the country.

The National Coordinator of People Living with Sickle Cell Disease, APLSCD, Aisha Edwards, who was also at the assembly, thanked the lawmakers for enacting the law.

She said the law above other things bars all forms of discriminatory practices against carriers of the disease, both in employment and admission into schools.

Source: https://dailypost.ng/2019/05/01/anambra-assembly-passes-law-banning-marriage-among-sickle-cell-carriers/amp/

Good one

Nice ome

E make brain. Anambra is about the best state in Nigeria. The south west states should and must emulate them.

To be an AS have disadvantages and Advantages

You have to marry AA.
You hardly fall sick

Won't this conflict with some fundamental human rights?

Lawyers in the house, what do you think?

i Got a mixed feeling about this bill

We have better bills to pass! Na this one?

Follygunners:
Make dem "Develop" the medicine to cure ma na... So it's gonna be a crime to fall in love, abi?

Foolish Okoro Savages!

PLEASE STOP THIS......pleaseeee!!
It's getting outta hands!

Mods, kindly take note once more!

Because they pass unneeded law? Smh

sgtponzihater1:
E make brain. Anambra is about the best state in Nigeria. The south west states should and must emulate them.

eyinjuege:
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.....

Don't deny people their basic human right

ina apudi ara ds boi? Why can't you face front for once in your dear life

Very foolish law which would be upturned in Court. It is a fundamental breach of the right to freedom of association.

It's like the old law aimed at reducing road traffic in Lagos. Vehicle with odd plate numbers move on a certain day, vehicles with even numbers move on certain days. It wasn't hard to scatter this law based on right to freedom of movement.

Do you know monthly environmental sanitation restriction ended in Lagos because someone took Lagos government to court that the Saturday restriction infringed on her freedom of movement and she won?

This would be challenged and thrown away. That's what you get when illiterate traders and drunkards are in charge of lawmaking.

How foolish can a people be to be burdened by these mentally challenged politicians...of all the problems in this country nah sick cell marriage be thier concern.

Tufiakwa!!!

This is just eugenics with extra steps...

Ok. It is noted.

O di ok

post=78022348:

PLEASE STOP THIS......pleaseeee!!
It's getting outta hands!

Mods, kindly take note once more!

Mr. Dav, abeg wetin be ur problem?

eyinjuege:
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.....

Don't deny people their basic human right

While another suffocates and die bcoz of such thinking.
Let us first think of the outcome of such before talking about human right.
We re looking at the chances of savings life over any kind of rights

Nonsense law...

Illiterate law makers..

Who said marriage must lead to child birth

I think they re right

is this the right thing to do?