Research Studies on Access to Safe Abortion

CEHAT's work on Abortion

a. Women's Abortion Needs and Practices in Rural Maharashtra
Most of the earlier research on abortion focused on the interests and motivations of policy-makers, doctors and demographers. Women were simply not in the picture. To understand the politics of abortion and to place abortion in the larger context of women's rights, CEHAT launched a qualitative study in the villages of Pune district.For details of the study visit...

b. Research and Advocacy Programme for Improving Quality of Abortion Care Services
CEHAT followed up its study of women's perspective on abortion by conducting a study of the abortion care facilities and providers in two districts of Maharashtra. The survey involved the study of physical and medical standards, interviews with the providers, observation of the provider-client interaction, and exit interviews of the clients and so on. For details of the study visit...

c. National Abortion Assessment Project
This is a multi dimension and multicentric research initiative co-coordinated by CEHAT and Healthwatch. A wide range of quantitative and qualitative studies looking at various dimensions of the abortion issue from profiling abortion services, quality of care, methods of abortion, cost of abortion services, decision making in abortion, sex selection, pregnancy outcomes, informal providers etc. were undertaken in 16 different states by 24 research institutions.For details of the study visit...

d. Abortion Rate, Care and Cost: A Community Based Study
CEHAT has undertaken a state level sample household survey to arrive at abortion incidence rates and to examine the nature and extent of abortion related morbidity in Maharashtra and its management. For details of the study visit...