Unsafe Abortion Persists In Indonesia, GlobalPost Reports
GlobalPost: Indonesia’s secret abortion problem
“In a country where abortion is illegal and talking about reproductive health is taboo, women are terminating their pregnancies in unsafe ways, often getting hurt and sometimes dying as a result. The Guttmacher Institute estimates that abortion is about 20 percent more prevalent in Indonesia than in Southeast Asia as a whole…” (Gibian/Crandall, 6/15).
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