Access to safe abortion services is an important matter of reproductive rights of women for leading a healthy life. In almost all the districts of Uttar Pradesh, there is lack of awareness and knowledge among communities regarding access to safe abortion services. Often it is seen that women suffer from unwanted or unplanned pregnancy due to multiple reasons and they need access to safe abortion services. The reasons behind unintended or unplanned pregnancy are unavailability of contraceptives, failure of sterilization, restricting the reproductive capacity etc. Many times, unwed adolescent girls become pregnant due rape and other reasons, and they need abortion care. In such situation, women want to avail safe abortion services but due to stigma and myths related with abortions, they get helpless to choose unsafe abortion services putting their lives in risk.

There is a widespread perception regarding abortion in the community that it is a sin and a murder. So, women don’t want to disclose it in the society and secretly terminate their pregnancy. Hence, they suffer from physical and mental agony and economic loss. Families pressurise women to give birth to the child and don’t allow abortion. In many families, women that have undergone abortion are discriminated. During abortion many women suffer from complications. When there is excessive loss of blood then they go to hospital either with ASHA or with family members and suffer from huge economic loss. Even today, abortion is considered as a stigma and a sin. There is a lack of awareness among women regarding Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act and they don’t consider abortion as their right.