Anti-abortion advocates demand probe into Kenya’s abortion pill financing”
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Pro-life activists from an organization named CitizenGO in Africa have launched a petition to end the promotion of abortion pills in Kenya. According to CitizenGO’s website, they work to defend and promote life, family, and liberty, ensuring the respect of human dignity and individual’s rights by those in power.
The petition was launched on August 18, calling on Kenya’s Ministry of Health to investigate IPAS Africa Alliance, a group seeking to broaden access to abortion and contraception. CitizenGO argues that IPAS is dangerously promoting abortion pills to Kenyan women and girls under the guise of “healthcare,” despite the fact that abortion is only legal under specific, limited circumstances in the country.
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Here’s what the petition states:
“IPAS, bolstered by foreign finances, bends the law, bribes health workers, and has converted pharmacies into illegal abortion clinics. Minors are ensnared in their trap leading to them suffering trauma, bleeding, and even facing the risk of death–all without care, support, or accountability. Babies are expelled in bathrooms. Women get abandoned when complications arise.
Despite the fact that Kenya’s laws protect unborn life, loopholes are being exploited by IPAS as they hand out abortion pills without scans, prescriptions, or medical supervision. Just pills delivered through WhatsApp or anonymous pharmacies.
The consequences of these actions are devastating with women facing incomplete abortions, uncontrollable bleeding, and deadly infections. Emotional scars last for years. This is not healthcare. It constitutes the exploitation of our sisters, nieces, and daughters for profit.”
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The petition also warns that IPAS is employing similar tactics in Uganda, Nigeria, Malawi, South Africa, and others, flooding whole regions with abortion pills in places where young women have little access to medical care.
Why This Matters:
Historically, many African nations, which are predominantly pro-life, have become targets of the abortion industry. Instead of offering necessary resources such as improved maternal care, aid money is often used to impose contraceptives and abortion on African women and families.
As stated in the petition, women who ingest the abortion pill can face grave consequences. According to a recent report, almost 11% of women who take the abortion pill suffer from sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or other serious or life-threatening adverse events.
In Africa, where many women live in rural communities with limited access to immediate health care, these adverse effects can be even more concerning.
The Bottom Line:
What African women need is not access to abortion or potentially lethal abortion pills, but more support, economic opportunities, and better health care.
Editor’s Note: The original version of this article was first published in Live Action and is reprinted with their permission.