Is Safe Abortion Really Safe?

Abortion attempted/criminal is silent scourge which is penetrating the society domain. Globally, Abortion mortality accounts for at least 13% of all maternal mortality. Unsafe abortion procedures, untrained abortion providers, restrictive abortion laws and high mortality from abortion tend to occur together. With the pad grim shift from surgical techniques to medical methods the scenario of MTP has shown little change in morbidity and mortality in relation to abortion. The problem can be multi-factorial like improved surgical techniques in unskilled or semiskilled hands or good potent drugs used in cases with some contraindications. Making abortion legal is an essential prerequisite to making it safe, changing the law does matter and assertions to the contrary are ill conceived and unsupported in practice. Safety is also about making sure that abortions will not be carried out by clandestine and unskilled providers who operate in situations that endanger women's lives, even if they have the best of intentions. Here we report four interesting cases that had opted for MTP but landed up with catastrophic consequences.