Unlike in Kiambu where abortion is mostly carried out by single mothers, in Nyanza it is perpetrated by mothers in troubled marriages. [Courtesy]
A mobile money operator in Kakamega County wanted to abort a baby boy she had with her father-who has since been sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment for incest.
“I loved to breastfeed the boy,” she recalls, “but the thought that I had him with my father pricked my conscience. Whenever the thought struck I thought of strangling him.”
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