TAILIEUCHUNG - Barriers to a rights-based approach to fertility control in Nigeria: Implications for the country’s development

This paper draws out existing barriers to any practicable population management framework that can apply to our nation without profound frustration in our system, consequent impracticality or ultimate abandonment of such policy or programme. | Journal of Law and Criminal Justice December 2018 Vol. 6 No. 2 pp. 32-43 ISSN 2374-2674 Print 2374-2ó82 Oniine Copyright The Author s . All Rights Reserved. Published by American Research Institute for Policy Development DOI URL https Barriers to a Rights-Based Approach to Fertility Control in Nigeria Implications for the Country s Development M. O. Izzi Mrs and J. A. Ajonumah Discussing population growth management in Nigeria is largely viewed as politically incorrect. Whilst this research reiterates the rancorous circle which poverty casts on Nigeria s all-round efforts in managing her Total Fertility Rate inclusive of social environmental cultural political and economic insecurities which strongly affect women negatively it negates the nature of a so-called absolute right to have as many children as we want and identifies the need for a workable population programme and policy framework which must be rights-centered promote sustainable development and enhance individual growth. In extending submissions with a view to overcoming challenges posed to a rights-based approach to fertility control this paper draws out existing barriers to any practicable population management framework that can apply to our nation without profound frustration in our system consequent impracticality or ultimate abandonment of such policy or programme. 1. Introduction Up to a point population growth can be accommodated but the goal of development extends beyond accommodation of an ever-larger population it is to improve people s lives. Today only the roughest forecasts of population trends in the Third World are warranted. In much of the Third World there is either no registration of births and deaths or a very incomplete one. Estimates of the population of African countries differ by as much as a third or more for populous countries such as Nigeria this discrepancy means tens of millions of people. 1 Status and reproduction are tightly

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