According to the study published in the noted medical journal Lancet, India's year 2015 data has revealed that one in three of 48.1 million pregnancies in India ended in an abortion around 15.6 million abortions in 2015. Nearly half (48%) of the pregnancies were unintended and 0.8 million women used unsafe methods for an abortion, putting their health and lives at risk.The most popular method used for abortion was abortion pills, which totalled up to 12.7 million or 81% of all abortions, while surgical terminations of pregnancy were at 2.2 million. Around 22% or 3.4 million abortions were done in public health facilities.
But 11.5 million or 73% were medication abortions done outside health facilities and 0.8 million were conducted by informal providers. In a comparison of the statistics, India’s abortion rate of 47 per 1,000 women aged between 15 and 49 years is lower than Pakistan’s…
