Police Harass Kenyan Patients and Clinics as Abortion Battle Heats Up

November 3, 2014

(Reuters) – Police threats against patients and medics they accuse of giving “illegal abortions”, coupled with reversals in Kenyan policies, are stirring fears likely to reduce access to safe abortions, campaigners said. Doctors and nurses say police intimidation has increased since last month’s sentencing to death of a nurse, Jackson Tali, for murder after a woman died in his car.