Desperate measures

30 March 2007 | Winnie Onyimbo

There’s no doubt that illegal abortion costs lives.

In countries in which abortion is illegal, women continue to seek it out, pay for it, or even carry it out themselves. The consequences can be devastating.

Winnie Onyimbo reports from Nairobi where hospitals deal with thousands of women suffering the effects of incomplete or unsafe abortions every year.

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