In Zimbabwe, we often confuse trauma with resilience. When headlines speak about the “youngest mother,” society is conditioned to marvel at what is described as a medical miracle.
But we must look closer.
That “youngest mother” is a nine-year-old child. She is a survivor of violence. She is also a victim of the Termination of Pregnancy Act (1977), a law whose rigid and bureaucratic process forced her to carry a pregnancy her young body was never meant to endure.
We cannot build a nation on the broken bodies of our daughters. If the law is meant to protect children, then the processes within that law must protect them too.
Do not look away.
Stand for justice.
Sign the petition today.
