BBC: Abortion nightmare in Nepal

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Don't think this is really LBN, so I'm posting here:

from : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3971127.stm

Four years ago Shanti was arrested and thrown into prison after the authorities accused her of having an abortion.

At the time this was a crime punishable in this Hindu kingdom with a life prison sentence.

Her ordeal began four months into her fourth pregnancy.

One fateful afternoon, feeling sick and dizzy, she swallowed some paracetamol tablets to cure a nagging migraine.

"I knew instinctively that I was miscarrying, and I had lost my baby," she recalls. "My underclothes were drenched in blood."

If abortion is outlawed, any woman having a miscarriage becomes a criminal suspect.

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1. If Roe v. Wade is overturned

This country will turn back the clock to the time when the leading cause of death for women 18-54 was complications of illegal abortion. If women should survive the procedure they will undoubtedly be prosecuted and perhaps even executed for it. Too many young women take birth control rights for granted.