Abortion in India: What Does the National Family Health Survey Tell Us?

Abstract

Abortion is possibly the most divisive women's health issue that policy makers and planners face particularly in developing countries where safe abortion facilities are not available to most women. The health risk of abortion multiplies manifold if a woman has to resort to it repeatedly. Given the fact that women in India have little control over their own fertility and also have poor health, the chances are very high that they may not only experience abortion, which includes both spontaneous and induced abortion, once but perhaps more than once.