Abortion in India: Ground Realities

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Conflict resolution and promotion of regional cooperation in South Asia has assumed a new urgency in the aftermath of the nuclear tests by India and Pakistan in 1998, and underlined by the outbreak of fighting in Kargil in 1999, full mobilization on the border during most of 2002, and continued low-intensity warfare and terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir. The stability of nuclear deterrence between the two countries is therefore a matter of great urgency and has found a place on the scholarly agenda of security studies in South Asia. Several books have been written on India’s nuclear programme, but these have been mostly analytical histories. This book is a new departure in that this is the first time that a group of scholars from the South Asian subcontinent have collectively tried to apply deterrence theory and international relationstheory to South Asia. Table of Contents Introduction: Emerging Issues in Abortion Use and Practice 1. Abortion Care in the Urban Slums in Ahmedabad Alka Barua 2. Women, Work and Abortion Practice: Tamil Nadu S. Anandhi 3. Abortion in Peri-Urban Communities: Married Women Speak Anjali Radkar 4. Sex Selection in Gujarat and Haryana: Some Empirical Evidence Leela Visaria 5. Abortion in Rural Pune: An Ethnographic Exploration Sudha Morankar, et al. 6. Post-Abortion Care in the Public Health System M. Prakasamma 7. The Choice of Induced Abortion: Rural Tamil Nadu P. Balasubramanian and T.K. Sundari Ravindran 8. Pregnancy Wastage Among the Poor in Karnataka: Socio-Economic and Medical Correlates K. Susheela and K. Nagaraj 9. Informal Providers of Abortion Services Bela Ganatra and Leela Visaria