This report is part of a larger study titled Unintended Pregnancy and Abortion in India (UPAI), which was conducted to provide much-needed information on the incidence of induced abortion and pregnancy, as well as access to and quality of safe abortion services, in six Indian states. This report focuses on Bihar, first providing detailed findings on facility-based abortion and postabortion services in the state, then using these and other data to formulate estimates of the incidence of abortion and unintended pregnancy. In the final section of the report, we offer recommendations to facilitate planning for improvements in the accessibility and provision of safe, high-quality abortion services.

Melissa Stillman, Manoj Alagarajan, Ann M. Moore, Susheela Singh and Haley Ball. “Unintended pregnancy, abortion and postabortion care in Bihar, India—2015.” New York: Guttmacher Institute 2018.