By JOSAYA WASONGA
As Published by the Nation Media Group in Living Magazine
Posted Tuesday, May 25 2010 at 10:19
After a colourful wedding in 2007, Mary Muthoni thought that the next step in their marriage — starting a family — would be easy. But what she expected to be an ordinary, nine-month dream has dragged into a three-year nightmare.
For the past three years, Muthoni, 27, has been trying to have a baby, always putting her life in danger, without success. And although she hasn’t read the draft constitution yet, she knows that it touches on one thing that she holds dear – the right to life.
“Draft or no draft, it’s a matter of life,” she asserts in response to my question on what she feels about the contentious Article 26 in the document.
“I became born-again when I was 13, but unless you have been in my shoes, you cannot understand what I’m talking about.”
Then she begins recounting her experience.
“I knew the sex of my first baby so I named her Victoria because it was a difficult pregnancy,” Muthoni recalls, tears welling in her eyes at the painful memory. (more…)
