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One-Third of Abortions in India Unsafe
Bangalore: Despite having a legally permitted system for abortions, it’s revealed that only two in five abortions are safe in India. While the abortion rates have reportedly stalled globally after a long period of decline, India registered 6.5 million abortions in 2008, out of which 66 percent were unsafe.
These findings were revealed in a new report by the World Health Organization along with Guttmacher Institute, New York, which assesses the progress regarding the legality, safety and accessibility of abortion services worldwide over the past decade. South and Central Asian region recorded a total 10.5 million abortions of which India has the major share with 6.5 million abortions taking place in the country. The region also recorded 200 deaths of women for every one lakh abortions.
India allows abortion on four grounds including abortion to save the life of the pregnant woman, abortion on socioeconomic grounds, abortion to protect a woman’s physical or mental health and for socioeconomic reasons. Over 70,000 women die every year due to unsafe abortion, an estimate which has not seen a decline in the last 10 years while other estimate state that eight million women undergo complications related to abortion needing medical treatment, but no more than five million of them receive care.
