TY - JOUR AU - Vaidya, Shambhavi AU - Kundapur, Rashmi AU - Prabhu, Sudhir AU - HN, Harshitha AU - Rai, Santosh PV AU - Rashmi, Anusha PY - 2020/06/30 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - An Audit of Loss of Pregnancy as an Answer to Differentiated Sex Ratio JF - Indian Journal of Community Health JA - Indian J Community Health VL - 32 IS - 2 SE - Short Article DO - 10.47203/IJCH.2020.v32i02.029 UR - https://iapsmupuk.org/journal/index.php/IJCH/article/view/1417 SP - 458 - 460 AB - <p><strong>Context:</strong> Abortion and unintended pregnancy in India is on the rise, and a large proportion of these unintended pregnancies end up in induced abortion. The soaring rate of abortion among Indian women can be influenced by a plethora of reasons. <strong>Aims: </strong>1) To identify the rate of second trimester abortion2) To determine the reasons behind second trimester abortions <strong>Settings and design</strong>: An audit of all the abortions in a district of South India was conducted. <strong>Material and methods: </strong>The data was obtained from the records of abortion reported in the year 2018 from the District Health Office and analysed. <strong>Statistical analysis used</strong>: Descriptive statistics <strong>Results</strong>: Majority of the pregnant ladies with abortion (55.73%) were aged between 21-30 years and abortions in second trimester were observed to be comparatively higher (50%). Among the myriad of reasons found for second trimester abortions, spontaneous abortions contributed to around 30% while 11.92% had no cause mentioned. <strong>Conclusion</strong>: A high rate of second trimester abortion throws suspicion towards sex selective abortions.</p> ER -