{"id":336527,"date":"2025-08-21T14:46:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=336527"},"modified":"2025-08-20T21:30:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T02:30:34","slug":"pro-life-activists-investigation-abortion-pill-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-activists-investigation-abortion-pill-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-life activists call for investigation into abortion pill funding in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Pro-life activists in Africa have launched a petition calling for an end to the foreign promotion of abortion pills in Kenya.<\/p>\n<h2>Key Takeaways:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The organization CitizenGo is calling on Kenya&#8217;s Ministry of Health to crack down on abortion pill distribution in the country.<\/li>\n<li>Though abortion is legal only in limited circumstances, a group called IPAS Africa Alliance is flouting the law in providing abortion pills.<\/li>\n<li>African women and girls who do not have regular access to health care facilities are at great risk of experiencing abortion pill complications.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The Details:<\/h2>\n<p>The pro-life activists in Africa are working under an umbrella organization called CitizenGO; according to <a href=\"https:\/\/help.citizengo.org\/article\/906-about-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">its website<\/a>, CitizenGo &#8220;is a community of active citizens who work together, using online petitions and action alerts as a resource, to defend and promote\u00a0life, family, and liberty.&#8221; The group works &#8220;to ensure that those in power respect human dignity and individuals rights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On August 18, it <a href=\"https:\/\/citizengo.org\/en-af\/lf\/16231-investigate-ipas-for-selling-illegal-abortion-pills--including-to-minor-s-without-parental-consent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">launched a petition<\/a> calling on Kenya&#8217;s Ministry of Health to investigate IPAS Africa Alliance, a group that &#8220;expands access to abortion and contraception.&#8221; CitizenGo contends that IPAS is dangerously pushing abortion pills on Kenyan women and girls under the guise of &#8220;healthcare,&#8221; despite the fact that the law states that abortion is only legal under certain, limited circumstances.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zVk1qM1El9o?si=H0fn1zNELbRgk4FL\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The petition states:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>With foreign money, IPAS bribes health workers, bends the law, and turns pharmacies into illegal abortion shops. Minors are caught in the trap. Girls are left to bleed, suffer trauma, and even risk death\u2014without care, support, or accountability. Babies are expelled in bathrooms. Women are abandoned when complications come.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Kenya\u2019s laws protect unborn life, but IPAS is exploiting loopholes. They hand out abortion pills without scans, prescriptions, or medical supervision. No doctors. No follow-up. Just pills delivered through WhatsApp or anonymous pharmacies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>The consequences are devastating. Women face incomplete abortions, uncontrolled bleeding, and deadly infections. Emotional scars last for years. This is not healthcare. It is exploitation of our sisters, nieces, and daughters for profit.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The petition also notes that IPAS is using similar tactics in Uganda, Nigeria, Malawi, South Africa, and more. &#8220;They flood entire regions with abortion pills, especially where young women have little access to medical care. Africa is being used as a testing ground for unsafe practices,&#8221; it states.<\/p>\n<h2>Why It Matters:<\/h2>\n<p>Historically pro-life, many African nations have become a target of the abortion industry, which continually uses aid money to foist contraceptives and abortion on African women and families rather than providing needed resources like better maternal care.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/groups-angry-african-women-iuds-trump-stockpile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Recent outrage<\/a> over the Trump administration&#8217;s decision to freeze U.S. foreign aid, which will likely result in the destruction of nearly $10 million in contraceptives, is a prime example of the mindset of many pro-abortion organizations that want to focus on sterilization efforts and abortion, rather than real services.<\/p>\n<p>As noted in the petition, women who take the abortion pill can face devastating consequences. One recent <a href=\"https:\/\/eppc.org\/news\/largest-ever-study-of-abortion-pill-reveals-shocking-number-of-adverse-events\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">report<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">found that nearly <\/span><b>11% of women<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (10.93%) who take the abortion pill experience sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or other serious or life-threatening adverse events \u2014 meaning <\/span><b>one in ten women<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> experience at least one serious complication from taking mifepristone within 45 days. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Africa, where many women live in rural communities and few have access to immediate health care, these adverse events can be even more problematic.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>The Bottom Line:<\/h2>\n<p>African women don&#8217;t need access to abortion, and they don&#8217;t need deadly abortion pills that put the entire abortion procedure into their own hands with no medical oversight \u2013 they need more support, economic opportunities, and better health care.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><i>Follow Live Action News on <\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\"><b><i>Facebook<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i> and <\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/LiveActionOrg\/\"><b><i>Instagram<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i> for more pro-life news.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-life activists in Africa have launched a petition calling for an end to the foreign promotion of abortion pills in Kenya. Key Takeaways: The organization CitizenGo is calling on Kenya&#8217;s Ministry of Health to crack down on abortion pill distribution in the country. 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