Illegal abortions continue killing women

Nepal legalised abortion in 2002. Every year about 100,000 women undergo the procedure at government-authorised clinics.

Last Thursday, a 35-year-old woman from Dhangadhi of Kailali district died while undergoing an abortion at a local clinic. The clinic, named ‘Marie Stopes Community Clinic’, which used medication to terminate the pregnancy of the woman, turned out to be illegally operated.