Women and Abortion Rights in Nepal

Abstract

Gender violence causes more death and ability among women aged 14-44 than cancer, malaria, tmffic accidents, or even war.

The indirect cost of gender violence to development is extremely high. The negative impact of gender violence on women's reproductive health is only just beginning to be recognised. Domestic and sexual violence is reproductive health problems because they are intertwined with sexuality, fidelity, pregnancy and child rearing. Research suggests that physical and sexual abuse is the one linked to some of the most intractable reproductive health issues of our times: teenage pregnancy, unsafe sexual behaviour and sexually transmitted diseases including infection with HIV.