Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights released the first comprehensive human rights report on abortion in Anglophone Africa documenting the devastating effects of the criminalization of abortion in Kenya. In Harm’s Way: The Impact of Kenya’s Restrictive Abortion Law found that the country’s law does not prevent women from having abortions. Instead, it severely undermines the quality of care women receive or forces them to resort to unsafe and clandestine means to terminate unwanted pregnancy.
