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 Tamil Nadu, 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.

Manoj Alagarajan, Aparna Sundaram, Rubina Hussain and Rajib Acharya. “Unintended pregnancy, abortion and postabortion care in Tamil Nadu, India—2015.” New York: Guttmacher Institute, 2018.