{"id":20474,"date":"2020-07-13T15:15:03","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T06:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/jul\/13\/women-always-take-the-brunt-india-sees-surge-in-unsafe-abortion"},"modified":"2020-07-13T15:15:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T06:15:03","slug":"women-always-take-the-brunt-india-sees-surge-in-unsafe-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20474","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Women always take the brunt&#8217;: India sees surge in unsafe abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Low priority for reproductive health during lockdown leaves millions unable to access contraception or safe terminations<\/p>\n<p>Sadhna Gupta* discovered she was pregnant just after India imposed a crippling lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old from the eastern Indian city of Bhubaneswar didn\u2019t want to be pregnant. With no public transport available, clinics closed and Bhubaneswar at a standstill, she bought an abortion pill without consulting a doctor. While what she did was not unusual, Indian law requires a prescription for the pills from a licensed medical professional.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/jul\/13\/women-always-take-the-brunt-india-sees-surge-in-unsafe-abortion\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Low priority for reproductive health during lockdown leaves millions unable to access contraception or safe terminationsSadhna Gupta* discovered she was pregnant just after India imposed a crippling lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19.The 21-year-o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1444,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,62,1539,79,61,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-india","category-reproductive-rights","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1444"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20475,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20474\/revisions\/20475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}