Unsafe Abortion: Is Kenya Brave Enough to Take A Stand?

Large brown eyes scan the broad room. In a buttercup yellow dress and green sweater and with flip-flops on her feet, Jane Vike Alfayo sits occasionally, the shy smile creeping to her lips belaying the nervousness with which she faces the day. A great crowd has gathered to this edition of the Henrich Boll Stiftung Gender Forum, a monthly discussion focusing on women and gender issues this time held at a hotel in Nairobi. Abortion being what it is, the room is filled with opinion. Tables are filled with papers teeming with reports, research findings and prepared statements. Incognito bouncers...