Unsafe Abortions Are In Arise Among Married Women

Around 90 percent of women who are under going  Unsafe Abortions in the country are married women according to the Gynecologist Dr.Lakshman Senanayake.Unwanted Pregnancies and related Socio-Economic reasons are the main causes behind these Unsafe Abortions Dr.Senanayake stressed.

S peeking at the Media Workshop organized by  Family Planning Association (FPA) today he said that although some organizations and individuals giving  statistics of the number of Abortions performs in the country per day it cannot calculate correctly due to the lack of date available at the moment.Under the Penal Code of the country Abortion can perform legally only to  save a life of a women and even there is malfunction of the fetus or in a rape case Abortion cannot perform according to the law Dr.Senanayake said.