{"id":48,"date":"2003-03-10T10:59:07","date_gmt":"2003-03-10T18:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/03\/10\/abortion-rights-in-kenya\/"},"modified":"2003-03-10T10:59:07","modified_gmt":"2003-03-10T18:59:07","slug":"abortion-rights-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"Abortion rights in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/headheeb.blogspot.com\/2003_03_02_headheeb_archive.html#90194550\">The Head Heeb<\/a> has a fascinating post about a feminist politiican in Kenya who caused a controversy by advocating abortion rights. You&#8217;d think abortion rights would be just sensible in a country where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freelancestar.com\/News\/FLS\/2003\/032003\/03092003\/850353\">5,000 women and girls die each year<\/a> from botched, illegal abortions &#8211; but unfortunately, evangelical Christianity is a powerful force in Kenyan politics.<\/p>\n<p>I thought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.health24.co.za\/news.asp?action=art&#038;SubContentTypeId=79&#038;ContentID=21323\">this comment<\/a> on the situation, by the head of the African Alliance for Women&#8217;s Reproductive Health and Rights, was interesting for drawing a relationship between abortion rights and colonialism:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Brookman-Amissah said in countries with liberal abortion laws, few women die from unsafe operations. &#8220;By contrast, African countries have excessively restrictive abortion laws, all inherited from colonial powers who have since changed their laws thus offering their own women wider choices,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?p=buy-viagra-overnight-delivery\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Head Heeb has a fascinating post about a feminist politiican in Kenya who caused a controversy by advocating abortion rights. You&#8217;d think abortion rights would be just sensible in a country where 5,000 women and girls die each year &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=48\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion-reproductive-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}