‘I Paid The Price With My Womb’: Tales Of Unsafe Abortions in India
Developing countries’ contribution is 97% of all unsafe abortions. More than half of them occur in Asia.

ISHITA DAS
Published: 21 Mar 2022

Rajlaxmi* (name changed) was sitting on the pavement of her rented shanty in Neharpar, Faridabad. She looked different from the last time I saw her.

Something was amiss.

Her eyes were hollow, her pearly white smile
seemed to have fallen into an abyss, her child-like persona absent.

Continued: https://www.thequint.com/fit/unsafe-abortion-most-common-cause-of-maternal-deaths-in-india

How Japanese doctors who do abortions see the introduction of medical abortion pills in Japan

by Kumi Tsukahara, for International Campaign for Safe Abortion newsletter
12-13 January 2022

The situation of abortion in Japan is really not well known to the rest of the world, hidden as it is behind the wall of language, and conversely, most Japanese doctors don't know about the situation of abortion provision overseas. As was reported in the ICWRSA newsletter on 9 January 2022, Linepharma has applied for approval of combined mife-miso medical abortion pills.

In response to this, the Japan Association of Obstetrics and Gynecology (JAOG) released a comment: "For the time being, prescriptions [of these pills] should be made only by doctors who are qualified to perform abortions at medical institutions where hospitalization is possible.” The president of JAOG said: "Doctors should not only prescribe the medications, but also perform subsequent management such as surgical operations in case of failure to expel the uterine contents, so a reasonable management fee is necessary.” He also said that it would be desirable to set the fee for the prescription of the pills at the same level as that for surgical abortion (D&C in Japan), which costs about 100,000 yen (= ± US$ 876).

Continued: https://mailchi.mp/safeabortionwomensright/21-jan-2021?e=372dd34034

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Nigeria – A tragedy of choice!

A tragedy of choice!

On November 23, 2019
by Urowayino Jeremiah

Abortion! I’d almost forgotten that such a word exists until last Thursday. The gist was that a former neighbour’s teenage daughter died last week due to complications from an illegal abortion. No sooner had I walked into my regular salon in the area, did my hair dresser, wearing a forlorn face ask if I had stopped at Mummy Seni’s house. I said no and asked why. “Did something happen to her?

“So you have not heard. Jumoke, Mummy Seni’s daughter is dead oh!!

Continued: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/11/a-tragedy-of-choice/

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India – Safe abortion: every woman’s right and her decision alone

Safe abortion: every woman’s right and her decision alone

Updated: Sep 28, 2019
Sanchita Sharma, Hindustantimes

There’s been a spurt in women approaching the Supreme and High Courts seeking permission to end their pregnancies, but the judgments have been conflicting, according to a new analysis of court judgments by the not-for-profit Pratigya Campaign for Gender Equality and Safe Abortion.

Over the last three years, 194 women have gone to courts seeking abortions in traumatic circumstances including rape, risk to life and mental health, or foetal abnormalities, but the judgments have been unpredictable, found the report, released on Saturday.

Continued: https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/safe-abortion-every-woman-s-right-and-her-decision-alone/story-TuyEHBau4TpxMHuyMBUsdK.html

India – Allow non-allopathists to perform abortions

Allow non-allopathists to perform abortions

Saturday, 02 June 2018
Vinoj Manning | in Oped

Despite abortion being legal in India for almost five decades, every day 10 women die and thousands more face serious and permanent injuries due to unsafe abortions. This is unacceptable. Unsafe abortion is the third largest cause of maternal mortality and accounts for eight per cent of all maternal deaths in India. A recent study conducted jointly by International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Population Council, New Delhi, and Guttmacher Institute, New York, estimates that only 22 per cent of the 1.5 crore abortions that occur in India every year take place at a private or public-sector facility and are performed by trained personnel.

The shortage of trained providers and concomitant lack of facilities offering safe abortion services are two of the key contributory causes of unsafe abortions. Unfortunately, the one policy action that could address this acute public health crisis is yet to be taken.

Continued: http://www.dailypioneer.com/columnists/oped/allow-non-allopathists--to-perform-abortions.html