Women sing at a Women’s Day Celebration in Kenya, where topics from equality, child marriage and abortion were tackled. (Photo via Flickr by bbcworldservice)

Although the November elections yielded women-friendly returns, the War on Women continues, both in the US and around the world.

In the last week alone the Michigan Congress pass a bill limiting abortions and Texas Governor Rick Perry announced his goal to eventually make “abortion, at any stage, a thing of the past.”

In the same speech, Perry said that one of his top priorities this year will be a proposed bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks.

Almost 40 years since the Roe v. Wade landmark case, Americans would do well to look past their own doorstep and consider the results of these debates worldwide.

I live in a country where abortion is mostly illegal. Since colonization, abortion in Kenya has only been legal when two doctors certify that the life of the mother is in danger.

This sounds frighteningly like what several public officials advocated for the United States during the last election.

Having spent the past two years working in women’s rights in Kenya, I’ve learned more than I’d like to know about the results of this law. Because it has been illegal for so long and is shrouded in so much stigma, statistics can be dubious. But what we do know is scary.

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