Decision to abort or not rests with women

It totally blows my mind how women’s private decisions can become the focus of intense and sustained public debate. Can you imagine if you woke up one day and strangers were insisting that all women should rub coconut oil under their arms instead of using deodorant? Never mind the odour they’d say, every man knows that coconut oil is healthier for a woman’s body than those overpriced and toxic anti-perspirant concoctions.

I mean, wouldn’t it be out of this world if random Kenyans on social media held the opinion that every young woman should use pads instead of tampons because hey, we all know that tampons can turn a virgin into a whore. Or if the rabble-rousing Twitter wing demanded that women on their period stay indoors for seven days to avoid contaminating innocent non-period-havers with their impurity? Can you imagine if women were required by law to shave their legs? Wax their pubic hair? Let their eyebrows grow wild?