PROF OLOYEDE ADVOCATES LEGAL REFORM TO ADDRESS EMERGING REALITIES IN FETAL MEDICINE
A Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Prof. Olufemi Adebari Oluwatoyin Oloyede, has called for a review of Nigeria’s abortion laws to address emerging realities in fetal medicine and better recognise the medical interests of unborn children. Oloyede, a Professor of Fetal Medicine and Genetics at Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago-Iwoye, made the call while delivering the university’s 130th Inaugural Lecture, titled “To Live or Not to Live: Navigating Ethical Dilemmas in Fetal Medicine,” at the OGD Lecture Theatre, OOU Main Campus, Ogun State. The lecture, chaired by the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Ayodeji Agboola, examined the increasingly complex intersection of medicine, law and ethics as advances in prenatal diagnosis enable doctors to detect serious fetal abnormalities before birth. Oloyede argued that Nigeria’s existing legal framework largely approaches abortion from the perspective of protecting the mother, without adequately addressing cases in which an ...