Opinion: Stop harassment of women, girls seeking abortion care
Evelyne Opondo, Senior Regional Director for Africa at the Center for Reproductive Rights, wrote an op-ed in the Daily Nation on the need for the Kenyan government to align the penal code with the Kenyan Constitution, which “gave a framework for reproductive health, including abortion care as a fundamental human right.” In the op-ed, Opondo outlines the barriers to abortion care that Kenyan women, girls, and healthcare providers face regularly, arguing that these obstacles demonstrate an “outright failure to acknowledge that the 2010 Constitution redefined the legal context for accessing abortion care” and calling upon the Kenyan government to “seal loopholes that pave way for harassment and extortion of providers and patients seeking abortion care.”
Read the op-ed here:
- “Stop harassment of women, girls seeking abortion care,” Daily Nation, 02.04.22
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