Unsafe abortion after legalisation in Nepal: a cross‐sectional study of women presenting to hospitals

To investigate abortion practices of Nepali women requiring postabortion care.Cross-sectional study.Four tertiary-care hospitals in urban and rural Nepal.A total of 527 women presenting with complications from induced abortion in 2010.Women completed questionnaires on their awareness of the legal status of abortion and their abortion-seeking experiences. The method of induction and whether the abortion was obtained from an uncertified source was...