Majority leader of Ghana's Parliament Mahama Ayariga confirmed that protective amendments had been included in the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, 2025, which criminalizes the promotion of "non-conventional sexual relations" and was passed on May 29, Modern Ghana reported on May 30. The amendments exempt certain activities from the prohibition, including those applying to legal work, academic and scientific writing, journalism and public health programs, sparking criticism by the opposition New Patriotic Party, or NPP, over what it deemed to be a "watered-down" version of the bill.

In February 2024, Ghana's Parliament passed a first version of the bill that did not include the latest exemptions, but then-President Nana Akufo-Addo refused to sign it into law until it was cleared of legal challenges. Ghana's Supreme Court dismissed legal challenges against the bill in December 2024, but the bill lapsed after Parliament was renewed in January 2025 following the December 2024 election, which President John Mahama's National Democratic Congress party, or NDC, won. Thereafter, NDC and NPP lawmakers reintroduced the bill in Parliament.