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American group pushes lawsuit for ‘safe’ abortions in Kenya

KENYA, July 18, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Kenya’s high court is set to decide whether the government is legally responsible for a teenage girl’s death in a back-alley abortion, in a lawsuit spearheaded by the U.S.-based Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR). In 2014, the girl publicly known only as JMM was raped and impregnated at age 15, Reuters reports. She had an illegal abortion, which gave her an infection and eventual kidney failure that took her life this past June, after being transferred between four hospitals that didn’t know how to treat her. In 2015, her mother filed a petition with the […]
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