With teenage pregnancy on the rise across the globe and in India, access to abortion services has been a cry for women under the banner of reproductive rights. The access to legal abortion is an outcry, an issue related to reproductive right and health along with social stigma attached to women who have been through early pregnancy and abortion. With the rise in the number of adolescent pregnancy in Shillong the issues relating to both adolescent pregnancy and abortion will soon emerge out in the surface in large numbers. In addition to this, because of the cultural and religious stigma attached to adolescent pregnancy and abortion, women and men experiencing these issues will be look out for ways to avail abortion services both legal and illegally. Therefore, in order to understanding this growing concern the researcher was motivated to take up the study.

Liansuanmung Suantak, Early pregnancy and abortion: A study of perceptions and experiences. A dissertation submitted- School of Social Work Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, 2017.