In Kenya, few choices to backstreet abortions -
source: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/03/23/kenya.abortions/index.html?hpt=C2
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Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) -- Women are being forced into backstreet abortions in Kenya because of the country's restrictive abortion law, a study says.
And the law could soon get even tougher with church groups urging a ban on almost all abortions.
The U.S.-based Center for Reproductive Health, which advocates abortions rights, found that women and girls in Kenya use metal wires, knitting needles and other unsafe practices to abort tens of thousands of unwanted pregnancies.
Beatrice was 14 when she died after an illegal abortion last year, and left a hole in her mother's heart.
Her mother, Nancy Wanjiku, said that after the girl's father died from AIDS, Beatrice secretly became a child prostitute to help feed the family.
Too afraid to tell her mother when she became pregnant, Beatrice didn't ask for help or go to a hospital -- she went to a backstreet abortionist.
to read more go to:http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/03/23/kenya.abortions/index.html?hpt=C2
And the law could soon get even tougher with church groups urging a ban on almost all abortions.
The U.S.-based Center for Reproductive Health, which advocates abortions rights, found that women and girls in Kenya use metal wires, knitting needles and other unsafe practices to abort tens of thousands of unwanted pregnancies.
Beatrice was 14 when she died after an illegal abortion last year, and left a hole in her mother's heart.
Her mother, Nancy Wanjiku, said that after the girl's father died from AIDS, Beatrice secretly became a child prostitute to help feed the family.
Too afraid to tell her mother when she became pregnant, Beatrice didn't ask for help or go to a hospital -- she went to a backstreet abortionist.
to read more go to:http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/03/23/kenya.abortions/index.html?hpt=C2
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CarolineS
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There are so many tragic stories like this, it's a woman's right to decide if she wants to bear a child, especially when doing so would bring them into such a dangerous world.
Thats why i hate the terms 'pro abortion' and 'pro life', the anti abortion people are anything but pro life! - 2 years ago
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