Health care seeking for variates based categories of abortion in dyal village Lahore,Pakistan

Although controversial and sensitive issue due to religious values and legality status in pakistan,still abortion was important considering the wellbeing of females. this study aims to assess health care seeking for abortion categories based on its variates in ever- married reproductive age group females residing in dyal village wahga town lahore,pakistan. cross sectional study method is used to collect data from 86 women experiencing 120 abortions during last five years. semi-structured questionnaire was used to gather the information. results of this study provide insights that eighty-six women had 402 pregnancies. among these 402 pregnancies,the experienced no of abortions were 127/402 (31.6%). reported induced abortions were 70/120 (58.3%). according to legality status 66/120 (55%) were ill-legal abortions. according to safety status 46/120 (38.3%) abortions were unsafe. identified categories based on abortion variates includes induced ill-legal unsafe 33.33%,induced ill-legal safe 21.67%,induced legal safe3.33%,spontaneous legal unsafe 5.00% and spontaneous legal safe 36.67%. induced ill-legal unsafe 30/40 performed by dai (non-professional),10/40 were self-induced. among induced ill-legal safe 26/26 all performed by doctor. among induced legal safe 4/4 all by doctor,spontaneous legal unsafe 6/6 all performed by dai and spontaneous legal safe 12/44 performed by doctor and 32/44 needed no medication.