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Crooked doctors mint money in risky backstreet abortions

By Kiundu Waweru

Nairobi, Kenya: Nineteen-year-old Victoria reenacts how a ‘doctor’ at a clinic in Huruma pumped out blood from her womb using some straw-like plastic. She was 17 then.

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