President Rupiah Banda, Childbirth Is Not Porn!

Summary of Case: Zambian Mac user and newspaper editor Chansa Kabwela; photos of babies dying in hospital strike; Kabwela turned over photos to government to help women; President Banda calls photos porn — no, not child porn — adult porn. Childbirth is porn, according to Zambian president Rupiah Banda. Kabwela faces 5 years in jail. The international women’s rights case is far along. Immediate action is required. Anne

Chansa Kabwela needs our help big time. Chansa’s a Zambian journalist facing five-years in prison because she was concerned about babies dying during a hospital strike in Zambia.

Of course, there’s politics involved. Chansa’s newspaper is on the wrong side of Zambian president Rupiah Banda.

If the president of Zambia is going to lock up the country’s journalists, he must find a better reason than making a legal case that birthing a baby is pornographic.

Chansa Kabwela, who is on trial for sending indecent imagesWe’re not meddling in politics. We’re intervening in an international woman’s rights legal case.

The citizens of Zambia will have to sort out their own politics, but saying that childbirth is pornographic is a Lubna’s International Arms Agents no-no.

I have no idea if we’re talking some absurd taboo about menstrual blood, or seeing a women’s naked body, or hearing a woman sing while she’s giving birth.

We’re not familiar with the nature of the woman’s taboo involved here. All I know is that her child died, because there was no medical care at the hospital, and like me, Chansa Kabwela tried to help other women facing the same situation.

Her newspaper didn’t publish the photos. Rather Chansa Kabwela turned them over to the proper government minister. I read that somebody couldn’t make tea upon opening the envelope with the photos (I am not kidding you) and so Chansa Kabwela must go to prison for five years.

Rupiah Banda, President of Zambia Believes that Childbirth is Porn

Rupia Banda, president of Zambia, believes that childbirth is pornographicCome on President Banda. It’s the 21st century. Times have changed. Let’s let go of some of those confounding notions about women. Childbirth being pornographic is a passe idea in most countries of the world (I hope).

We have great respect for your customs and traditions, but not this one.

I want to say, sir, that this is not an act of uppity moxie women leaning on you, but unfortunately it is.We’ve lost a lot of time here; this case is far along.

To the extent that you want to be a respected member of the international community, please find a better way to lock up your journalists.

I hate to give Zambian president Rupiah Banda the bad news, but he made his own colorful entry ino the world, right out of his own mama’s bleeding womb.

Was the president’s birth a pornographic act, too? Perhaps that makes the Zambian president illegitimate. Or is this a new item in the Zambian judicial code?

Politics is not our bag here. Women’s rights are. Childbirth is not pornographic, and suggesting that a photo of a dead baby is porn is well … highly suspicious. Only an unusually creative, decadently erotic mind makes such a connection, sir.

I’m sure you were just overly preoccupied with much more important matters the day you decided to try this case against Chansa Kabwela. We all succumb to blurry-eyed thinking on occasion, what with all that a president of any country has to worry about. 

Surely this is a simple oversight. I can’t imagine what Bill Maher would do with this one. Oh, and one more thing, Chansa Kabwela is a Mac user.

Locking up Mac users for trying to save dying children is filled with extra bad kharma. Mac users are good people. This is yet another reason for Anne of Carversville to support Chansa Kabwela.

For more on the Chansa Kabwela case: read other media links, Chansa Kabwela Needs Lubna’s International Arms Agents in Zambia.

Anne