Horror Of Horrors! How Women Are Being Denied Right To Safe Abortion

• 48% Out of 48.1 million annual pregnancies, around 48 per cent are unintended and 33 per cent end in abortion

• 26.3% Only 26.3% of all retail chemists in 20 cities spread across Bihar, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh stock medical abortion (MA) drugs, revealed a study conducted by Pratigya Campaign

• 52%  abortions are performed in private sector and 20 percent in the public health sector and over 26% of the abortions performed by the woman herself at home; almost 20 per cent end in complication due to unsafe abortions—National Family Health Survey (2015-16)

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