Kenya in court after botched abortion injures raped 15-year-old

By Katy Migiro NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The mother of a 15-year-old rape survivor, who needs a kidney transplant following a botched backstreet abortion, filed a case against Kenya’s government on Monday for denying women and girls safe access to terminations. The girl, who said she became pregnant when she was raped by an older man, started vomiting and bleeding heavily after an unsafe abortion. Rape survivors have difficulty accessing safe abortions in Kenya, despite being allowed to under the ministry of health’s guidelines on managing sexual violence, the petition said.
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