A lobby group has filed a petition at the High Court to overturn the decision by the Director of Medical Services and the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board (KMPDB) to ban Marie Stopes Kenya from offering reproductive health services.
Through lawyers Martin Onyango and Sofia Rajab, the group claimed that after the ban many women and girls who visited Marie Stopes in urgent need of reproductive health services were turned away thereby exposing them to lifelong risk of unsafe abortions.