Mr Magufuli warned schoolgirls at a rally on Monday that: "After getting pregnant, you are done", reports BBC online Friday.
A law passed in 2002 says the girls can be expelled and excluded from school for "offences against morality" and "wedlock". Women's rights groups have recently been urging the government to change the law.
The President said that men who impregnate (gør gravide) the schoolgirls should be imprisoned for 30 years and "put the energy they used to impregnate the girl into farming while in jail”.
At least 8,000 Tanzanian girls drop out of school every year due to pregnancy, according to a Human Rights Watch report.
The African Women's Development and Communication Network, Femnet has expressed its outrage.
"With all the work we have done to emancipate Africa's girl-child from the shackles of discrimination and violation, a sitting president turns around to "re-victimze" and treat their situation like a terrible infectious disease which other girls must be protected from," said its head Dinah Musindarwezo, according to BBC online.
Two weeks ago, Tanzania's Vice-President Samia Suluhu called for young mothers to be readmitted to school, saying they should not be denied a right to education.
Mere om Tanzanias 57-årige førstemand, der er kaldt bulldozer-præsidenten og som tiltrådte i november 2015, på
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Magufuli
