An in-depth study of criminal abortion in multidimensional perspective

Criminal abortion is the rampantly practiced illegal procedure permeating the medical domain. Keeping this in view a comprehensive task was undertaken to study this phenomenon in different perspective collaborating with each other to define exactly the status of criminal abortion in India. The parameters selected were age, marital status of the woman, socio-economic status, literacy, parity, gestational age, and the devices utilized for inducing criminal abortion. Details of complications, modality of treatment, morbidity and mortality have come out of this study, which was done over a period of 2 years as part of MD thesis, the study being conducted at 1050-bedded teaching hospital. Details are provided in the paper for larger circulation.