The death of a Kenyan activist due a botched abortion spotlights how thousands of pregnant women and girls are being driven by social stigma and restrictive policies to lose their lives in backstreet clinics, human rights campaigners said on Friday. Preliminary results of the postmortem conducted on Thursday found she died of excessive bleeding and a ruptured uterus arising from a crude abortion attempt. Read: Body of missing Dandora activist Caroline Mwatha found at City Mortuary"Caroline did not have to die. The health ministry has withdrawn essential guidelines on conducting safe abortions and banned health workers from training to perform them. "The government should find ways to remove the stigma around abortion and provide better and safe access to abortion services so that no more women and girls have to die."

Source: The Star February 16, 2019 08:37 UTC