Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.
— Oscar Wilde.
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Let’s talk abortion Rights Kenya’s stand on abortion
Talking about abortion raises emotions among people, it is viewed by some as wrong and use their moral standings to explain why while others feel it is a basic human right. These two groups always standing on opposite sides giving opinions and justification. However, we need to ask ourselves have we ever considered abortion as a human right? Have we ever asked ourselves how we can protect our women from injuries, disability and even death caused by unsafe abortion? Unsafe abortion plays a big role in maternal mortality in Kenya contributing about 43% of maternal deaths in Kenya. In a bid to decrease maternal mortality caused by unsafe abortion, Kenya unveiled the standards and guidelines for the reduction of morbidity and mortality from unsafe abortion commonly referred to as the post-abortion care guidelines. However, in 2013, the guidelines were withdrawn due to stakeholders disagreeing with some parts of the document. The withdrawal of this document led to an increase in maternal deaths due to unsafe abortion one case study is of JMM who after being defiled sought abortion services but could not have the services since there was no guideline to help the medics. So JMM sought the services from another place. However, the young girl started bleeding heavily and had to seek medical attention. Like many young girls who seek post-abortion services, she turned up late at the facility for medical attention which could not be done unless she went to a level five hospital which could treat her. Unfortunately she was too late and went into shock and had kidney failure which led to her death. This was a young girl whose only mistake was being born female.
Withdrawal of the guidelines cost us promising young women like JMM. Despite being denied safe abortion services we can see that she was still determined to get one. This clearly shows that the legal status of abortion does not reduce the number of induced abortions as women will still seek abortion if they need them. Denying women basic health rights is discriminatory as put across by the opposing team.
It was a happy day when the judge reinstated the guidelines ensuring that women will have access to post abortion care. This will go a long way in ensuring women have access to safe abortion well within the law as well as save women’s lives who needed Post Abortion Care considering that it is an emergency treatment and is meant to save lives. Despite this being a very big progress, we need more proactive methods to prevent maternal mortality and morbidity considering the fact that East Africa has the highest rate of maternal mortality in Africa where 1 in every 5 maternal deaths is caused by unsafe abortion. These statistics should show us that we are losing a lot of women to unsafe abortion. How much do we care for these lives lost to take actual effort to prevent further deaths and injuries?
Introduce Yourself (Example Post)
This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.
You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.
Why do this?
- Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
- Because it will help you focus you own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.
The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.
To help you get started, here are a few questions:
- Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
- What topics do you think you’ll write about?
- Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
- If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?
You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.
Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.
When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.
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