Lourdes Walusala receive backlash from people who turned abusive after she published an article.

Lourdes Walusala, a senior producer at Kenya Broadcasting Corporation traumatized by the online harassment forcing her to take breaks from social media as a way of self-sensor. Lourdes, who by then was in her third year of journalism practice, published an article on safe abortion which caught the attention of the public who in turn started harassing her for “championing for abortion” “The article elicited mixed reactions and I faced backlash from people who turned so abusive. I deleted their comments but they still followed me in my inbox and abused me for misleading women by encouraging them to procure abortions,” she narrated, adding that, “they reminded me of the child I had lost due to a pregnancy-related complication and that hurt me.” she said in an exclusive interview with Parents magazine.