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Safe abortion could put a break on women's mortality rates in Indonesia

August 25, 2009
Fabio Scarpello, IPS News

Women's rights groups who are campaigning for widening the scope of abortion in Indonesia are calling for an amendment to a colonial era law that puts poor women at risk.

Tini Hadad, secretary general of the Association for Women's Health, says Indonesia has one of the world’s highest rates of deaths from unsafe abortions. "This is because the current laws are totally inadequate," she told IPS.

The Association for Women's Health is part of the Women’s Network for a National Legislation Programme, a coalition of some 30 women’s rights groups that has been campaigning for improved family planning services since 2005.

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