ABSTRACT
For a long time, religion, particularly Christianity, has been very influential on a number of issues across Africa. Some countries owe their political stability to the advocacy and initiative of Christianity in liberating the people. In its early years, Christianity also generally set the standard for the morality of African society. Such moral standards included those of reproductive health issues such as abortion. However, recently, there has been a new phenomenon in so far as issues pertaining to reproductive health ethics are concerned. People no longer blindly accept what Christianity used to teach as dogma in matters of morality. Some go to the extent of seeing the Church as inconsiderate, dictatorial, and far removed from reality as far as deciding on reproductive issues is concerned. This chapter seeks to discover why there is such a phenomenon. It establishes that the Christian ethics on reproductive health has not outlived its usefulness but that what is needed is a new approach that suits current times. This chapter therefore proposes the theory of intersectionality as a solution to this phenomenon.
