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- ItemAbortion and Sanctity of Human Life(Tangaza College, 2009) Njagi, Reuben, KAbortion remains one of the most famous debated social and moral issues. Both pro-life and pro-choice groups present powerful arguments for and against abortion. The pro-life group emphasizes the value of protecting human life since conception at any cost, on the basis of the fact that human life is a sacred gift from God to humanity and should be treated with respect and reverence. The pro-choice group emphasizes the argument that women should have a right to control their body to the point of absolutizing her right over the natural phenomenon of development of a new being. Because of this for at least 25 years now, the issue of abortion has grown increasingly difficult in our contemporary society.
- ItemAn Empirical Study on Abortion and Rape As The Major Challenges Facing the Kenyan Church Today(Tangaza University College, 2006) K. Rutatinisibwa, EdwinThroughout history Women have experienced various levels and diverse forms of violence. We hear of several incidents of sexual and domestic violence against women. It is believed that, women in our societies have been exposed to exploitations, discriminations, abuses and frustrations among others. Abortion and rape in Kenyan society have been increasing everyday. Problems facing women are not confined to those in traditional societies. They extend to the so called modern societies too. In Kenya nowadays, rape is one of the most worrying realities confronting females. It is shocking that daily there are incidents of rape and abortion being reported. The serious social impacts of such a situation poses, a major challenge to the Kenyan Church. Every individual by nature has to pass through various stages in life. It is unavoidable for a human being to live without challenges and problems in his/her lifetime. Always changes bring growth and make the individual become mature. The Church, which fights for equality and human rights in order to bring peace and justice all over the world, has a lot to do as far as Kenyan Society is concerned.
- ItemHealing of Women Who Have Had an Abortion(Tangaza University College, 2002) Dionis Massawe, AndrewThe study will concentrate on the healing and counseling women who have had an abortion. Our study therefore deals with issues such as: What is the understanding of Abortion? Which issues lead to abortion? What are consequences? And, entirely what steps can be taken to reconcile and heal the woman who has had an abortion? Is there any African or Christian approach to be used in the healing? Again, we shall show where the study was carried out, and when the researcher started collecting data and methodology employed. This work remains entirely in the limits and the requirements set in the academic yearbook of Tangaza College. The college requires the final written project to have ten to twelve thousand words of the text (excluding preface, table of contents, bibliography etc.). This work therefore, considerably suffices to this requirement. The work consists of five chapters: Chapter One: General Introduction Chapter Two: Literature Review Chapter Three: Research Methodology Chapter Four: Research Findings; the results, discussions and presentations of the interpretations. Chapter Five: Recommendations, Pastoral suggestions and conclusions. During the data collection, the researcher was faced with many difficulties. I will mention just a few. First, the major problem was that the respondents did not keep the
- ItemHealing Of Women Who Have Had An Abortion: A Pastoral Issue Today In an African And Christian Approach(Tangaza University College., 2002-02) Massawe, Andrew DionisIt is during my pastoral year in western part of Uganda, when I met a young woman who had a story to narrate to me. It is her sad story that took my attention to even think of developing it in this paper. The following is her story .. My name is Cleopatra [not her real name], I am sixteen years old. I am a drop out from Kyebambe Secondary School I dropped out of school immediately after the second term of Senior One. The following is what caused my ordeal. It was when I went home for my vacation and visited my boy friend at his parent's home. He told me that he loved me so much and has been waiting for me to come home and visit him. I did not have a perfect relationship with him though. He suggested to me that we have sex since it would make us friendlier. It was not right to have sex with him but I did. After a while I started experiencing some difficulties, and when I went to the clinic, the doctor told me that I was pregnant. When I returned to the boy, he suggested that I should go for an abortion since we all had to finish school In fact, he was the only one who knew about it. Finally, I had an abortion the following week. The minute left the clinic, I hated myself and wished that someone had stopped me. Afterwards I felt like an empty soul. All my life was torn apart for what I was told to do. Everyday I think about it. It is very hard to express my feeling and my thought. She ended her story with tears flowing in her eyes. Coming back to Tangaza College, I had an opportunity to attend a course in pastoral psychology being offered and taught by Rev. Prof Raphael Wanjohi. While discussing the topic on the victims of abortion, it gave me an opportunity to put together the story of this young woman. Her words made me feel a strong desire to develop this work. There is something in our heads that we know and is quite different from what we know in our hearts. One may intellectually know that abortion is wrong, but the emotional fears and terrors may outweigh that knowledge and prevent the heart from understanding and acting on that truth. This was the same with my friend Cleopatra. My approach to the whole issue is about what could be done for the woman in the story above. She is disturbed and in agony because of the pain and loss. Having followed her story quite closely, we became more convinced that, there are many women who might be in the same situation hence development of this work. We are here considering an African as well as Christian perspective on the whole issue of healing of the women who have had an abortion. For, as long as this ministry is ignored, we run into the risk of developing a society of traumatized mothers or women who at the end will turn into other abuses searching for answers that may not be found.
- ItemThe Moral Evaluation Of Infertility With Regard To Abortion As A Threat To The Dignity Of Human Life In Today’s World(Tangaza University College, 2019-05-29) Kambale, Tsongo JustinAmong all the things that God created and found them good, there is life as a precious and indestructible gift that He providentially entrusted to the human person after creating him. This very same life that God gave the human person with the aim of sharing in his own life, was endowed with a sacred character due to its divine origin. However, over several decades, it happens at times that, because of various circumstances and attempts of the human person to rule himself, he or she falls within the temptation of undervaluing life by adhering to some particular and negative ideologies that threaten life. Some of these practices are for instance Abortion, the use of Contraceptives, Euthanasia, and so forth. All these practices are mostly oriented towards the economic gain since, if they are legalized in a particular country, those who opt for them are rewarded. All these are responsible for both man’s moral, social and psychological decline since they all go against God’s commandment that we shouldn’t kill. In addition, there are for instance countries whereby in order to strive against the large number of people, abortion is legalized as means through which the number of inhabitants may be adapted to the potentialities of the State. Others favor euthanasia as a means of getting rid of patients who have lost every kind of hope for them to recover their health; therefore, since the patients have become a burden to the family due to a lot of expenses in terms of medicine, through their consent or that of their families, they choose to undergo euthanasia which is called in other terms “the serein death”, rather than continuing suffering and to bother the family. Such a fact certainly overlooks the2 fact that no one here on earth has been entrusted the right to end up other people’s lives without God’s consent to whom such an act is exclusively reserved. In effect, all these kinds of ideologies are really against the Biblical teaching as well as the Magisterial teaching of the Church with regard to the dignity of human life. Having said that, of all the above-mentioned practices that challenge human life as well as the moral perspective of the human person, especially in our contemporary world, I would like to focus more upon Abortion itself as the evil practice of our times and some of the consequences that it has upon the practitioners. To be more concise, I am going to focus more over Induced abortion as far as the types of abortion are concerned. In fact, those practicing abortion and promoting it think that it is a means to free female creatures from men’s exploitation, but, on the contrary, it enhances men’s possibility of exploiting them since men are those who mostly induce them to abortion, especially when they are not ready to assume their responsibility towards the pregnant woman or lady after the incident has taken place. Needless to say, it is actually obvious that we are facing a very considerable moment of tending to substitute virtue to vice by opting for the easy things that we judge capable of providing us the best we need for our survival. While there are married couples longing for a child in order to stress more the unitive and procreative dimensions of marriage, there are others who joke with life by procuring abortion. Such a practice is done in various circumstances due to various causes such as safeguarding job, inability to assume the responsibility upon the newlyborn baby, traumatism, unwanted pregnancy and so forth. With regard to the consequences, we’ll base all our full interest on Infertility as an inconvenience of excessive induced abortion on the side on the woman since it’s really justifiable that there are women who were not born as such, but they end up becoming3 unproductive because of their adherence to some evil practices or the negative influence that they acquire from their environment. The next part will be about reflecting more over the relevance of human dignity with regards to the effects caused by both moral issues. More than that, through such a practice the human person is slowly losing all the moral values with regard to life and ends up in corrupting his conscience by rendering it unable to discern on that which is good in contrast with that which is evil. This is really a challenge upon which we should try to work so that we may bring the human person back to his initial state as wanted by the Creator. This eradication will be elaborated in the light of some moral recommendations whereby we shall try to give some possible solutions that will allow us to assist women who are victims of the nonnatural infertility due to their adherence to the practice of Abortion.
- ItemScientific and Indigenous (Unscientific) Abortive Methods Used to Assist African Woman Procure Abortion: A Case Study in Nairobi City; The Akamba And The Agikuyu Communities of Kenya.(Tangaza University College, 2003) Kalenga Wa Kalenga, WilbertBefore breaking for my pastoral experience that I did in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, I attended a course in Medical Ethics taught by Reverend Prof. Raphael Wanjohi. Different films were shown to us according to the topics we tackled in class. The most striking film was about scientific abortive methods in which women were assisted to abort. The abortionists in that movie used modem instruments to carry out abortion in different ways. Those women were bleeding at length for so long. Most of them who were interrogated afterwards gave me the impression that their decision to have abortion was out of a total ignorance. This explains why they resolved not to abort anymore. At Tangaza College, after my pastoral, I attended another course in Pastoral Psychology I and II which were taught by the same Professor, Wanjohi. In the first part of this course. two sisters who were attending classes with us showed a film about a Kenyan woman who had had an abortion. This African lady was taken to a medical doctor who used the same modem instruments we saw in the first film to assist her in killing the unborn baby.