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Many women will do anything to avoid that fate, from drinking bleach to using knitting needles or clothes hangers to end their pregnancies

Victoria Atieno was waiting at a Nairobi bus stop when she felt blood gush from her body, the result of a secret, self-induced abortion - a method used by thousands of Kenyan women, with potentially fatal consequences.

Even a reproductive health counsellor like Atieno -- her mind blanketed with fear -- ended up gulping down a herbal concoction to induce an abortion in secret

Kenyas constitution eased access to abortions in 2010 but unsafe procedures remain rampant. Every week, 23 women die from botched abortions, according to a 2012 study by the health ministry

Abortion stigma a possible death sentence for Kenyan women