Lying in bed clutching her abdomen, a young Indian woman leans over her toddler to retrieve some pain relief from the stash on her bedside table at a private hospital in Delhi.
Kiran, 22, has just had an abortion using a method known as dilation and curettage (D&C) – a painful procedure in which the cervix is dilated and the uterine lining scraped out. “I didn’t plan to have this baby so I had to have an abortion,” Kiran says. “When I sit up I have very bad pain.”The hospital room is filled with other women, lying on metal gurneys after undergoing the procedure.

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