Abortion is a closely watched issue in this year's election and not just in the United States.

Former President Trump cut funding for international groups that offer or even counsel on abortion services.

Advocates on both sides of the debate in Kenya are watching for who wins and what that may mean.

With the support of the Pulitzer Center, special correspondent

Neha Wadaker reports from Nairobi. And a warning, this story contains accounts of sexual and

gender-based violence. Anne became an orphan when she was just 10 years old. With nowhere to turn,

she moved to Dandora, Kenya's largest dump site, and began sorting

trash to earn some money. Shortly after she arrived, Anne was raped by an older man. We have

changed her name and concealed her identity. Anne soon started making a living as a sex worker.

Many of her clients were abusive, and some refused to wear condoms.

That's because when you need a guy, if you ask him to use protection, he says, I don't eat

a sweet while it's still wrapped. At age 13, Anne became pregnant. Nearly one in five Kenyan

girls becomes pregnant before they're 18, in part due to poverty and lack of sex education and access

to contraception. Back in 2004, abortion was completely illegal in Kenya. Anne used black market

pills for her first abortion. Her second pregnancy two years later was harder to terminate.

So I used knitting needles. It got to the point where I bled for two months. was harder to terminate. So I used knitting needles.

It got to the point where I bled for two months.

I had to go to the public hospital where I got help.

Anne's story is far too common in Kenya,

where an estimated seven women and girls die each day from unsafe abortions.

Many who survive the procedures are left with severe complications, says Monica Agutu,

founding executive director of the nonprofit health care organization came at.

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