Reinstate the Guidelines On Safe Abortions
On August 4, 2013, Mary Omollo (not her real name), a young house help, was frog-marched from her home in Nairobi’s Mathare slums to Muthaiga Police Station. She was accused of procuring an unsafe abortion. Mary was humiliated in the full glare of the media. More importantly, she was kept in custody without any medical …