Kenya – Laws on abortion will save women and girls

Abortion is protected by the constitution under Article26 (4).

Purity Nthiana
June 14, 2023

Abortion is a topic that has been very sensitive over the years. When people are asked about their opinion, they throw the ‘abortion is a crime’ statement with no further room for debate.

Dozens of women access abortion and post-abortion services yearly whether safe or unsafe. Abortion is protected by the constitution under Article 26 (4).

Continued: https://www.the-star.co.ke/opinion/2023-06-14-nthiana-laws-on-abortion-will-save-women-and-girls/

Kenya – Teen pregnancy is a menace destroying the future young girls and needs to be addressed

By Doris Kathia and Purity Nthiana
May 1, 2021

Globally there are 214 million women with an unmet need for contraception. The unmet need for family planning remains high in Kenya with about one in four married women not able to access contraceptives.

Only three in every 10 adolescents and young women are using a modern contraceptive method.

Continued: https://citizentv.co.ke/blogs/opinion-teen-pregnancy-is-a-menace-destroying-the-future-young-girls-and-needs-to-be-addressed-10889314/

International Safe Abortion Day: Why Kenya needs clarity on safe abortion guidelines

International Safe Abortion Day: Why Kenya needs clarity on safe abortion guidelines

By Purity Nthiana
September 28th, 2019

This weekend, the world will be marking the International Safe Abortion Day, on 28th September. This comes in the wake of the recent High Court ruling to reinstate the 2012 Standards and Guidelines for Reducing Morbidity and Mortality from Unsafe Abortion in Kenya.

While many reproductive health advocates have lauded the court’s decision as a win for women, many Kenyans are still in the dark regarding what the document actually says.

Continued: https://nairobinews.nation.co.ke/blog/international-safe-abortion-day-why-kenya-needs-clarity-on-safe-abortion-guidelines

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Africa should review legal restrictions on abortion to save lives

Africa should review legal restrictions on abortion to save lives
Lives are lost when women seek help from untrained personnel to avoid facing the law

by DANIEL OTIENO, Star Blogs
01 May 2019

The annual hospitalisation rate for complications from unsafe abortion in Uganda is estimated at12 per 1,000 women aged between 15 and 49, down from 15 per 1,000 in 2003.

Kenya spent Sh533 million last year to treat complications related to unsafe abortion. In Rwanda half of all abortions are done by untrained individuals.

Continued: https://www.the-star.co.ke/opinion/star-blogs/2019-05-01-africa-should-review-legal-restrictions-on-abortion-to-save-lives/

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Kenya – Health lobbies condemn anti-abortion billboards

Health lobbies condemn anti-abortion billboards

Tuesday April 23 2019
By ABIUD OCHIENG

A coalition of civil society organisations (CSOs) has called on the government to give support and protection to women and girls seeking abortion services.

The CSOs have particularly taken an issue with billboards erected in parts of Nairobi that portray abortion as murder and argue such blanket condemnation may lead to violation of women’s reproductive health rights.

Continued: https://www.nation.co.ke/news/Health-lobbies-condemn-anti-abortion-billboards/1056-5083830-gdafbk/

Kenya – Let’s combine our efforts to end teen pregnancies

Let’s combine our efforts to end teen pregnancies

by Daniel Otieno
Star Blogs
26 March 2019

The Kenya Demographic Health Survey 2014 shows the prevalence of teen pregnancy as follows: 33 per cent in Homa Bay, Migori (24 per cent), Kisii (18 per cent), Siaya(17 per cent) and Kisumu(15 per cent).

Rape and incest, inadequate sex education, inaccessible family planning services, poverty, and anti-family planning campaigns by the church have been blamed.

There is no single approach to end cases of unplanned pregnancies as well as its consequences; school dropouts, unsafe abortion and sexually transmitted infections.

Continued: https://www.the-star.co.ke/opinion/star-blogs/2019-03-26-lets-combineour-efforts-to-end-teen-pregnancies/

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