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Women lobby sues State over annulment of safe abortion guidelines

Health Cabinet Secretary James Macharia

The Government has been put to task over unsafe abortions, with women groups and a victim of defilement seeking the court's interpretation of when a legal abortion can be provided.

The Centre for Reproductive Rights filed the case on behalf of Federation of Women Lawyers yesterday, saying revocation of safe abortion guidelines sometime last year denied women their right to health.

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