Ablekuma West MP Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has called on women who are pressured into oral or anal sex by their partners to report the misconduct to the authorities. The lawmaker highlighted that the Anti-LGBTQ bill makes anal intercourse a crime for both sexes.
She expressed concern about reports of wives receiving divorce threats from their husbands if they refused to engage in such sexual activity during the discussion of the Promotion of Proper Sexual Human Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill.
“For the avoidance of doubt and the information of all Ghanaians, oral sex and anal sex, regardless of whether it is between woman and man, man and man, or woman and woman, is illegal under our law, and so if there is anybody who is practising oral sex or anal sex, please note that what you are doing is against the existing law of this country,” she said.
In a Wednesday address to her colleagues, she emphasised the importance of the proposed legislation in addressing these kinds of problems.
“And so I will urge any woman or young girl being subjected to any such practise under the guise of heterosexual sex to know that what they are being asked to do is against the law and must seek help from the Police. Anal sex is unnatural carnal knowledge, use of sex toys is unnatural carnal knowledge.”
The controversial law has been proposed for passage by Parliament’s Constitutional, Legal, and Parliamentary Affairs Committee.
Other legislators who supported the bill included Bernard Ahiafor, Nelson Rockson Dafeamekpor, Sam George, Murtala Mohammed, and John Ntim Foruor.
Speaker Alban Bagbin asked members of parliament who were against the bill to make themselves known. However, there was no answer to his call, indicating that all MPs were in agreement that the bill should be passed.
The bill has passed the second reading and is now in the phase of consideration before it can pass the third and final reading and become law.
