This books makes an empirically rich and important contribution to social scientific scholarship on induced abortion practices.

Abortion in Asia : an overview / Andrea Whittaker -- Contraceptive use and unsafe abortion in rural Cambodia / Elizabeth Hoban, Tung Rathavy and Phirun Lam -- Between remembering and forgetting : maintaining moral motherhood after late-term abortion / Tine M. Gammeltoft -- Violence, poverty, and 'weakness' : interpersonal and institutional reasons why Burmese women on the Thai border utilise abortion / Suzanne Belton -- Quality of care and pregnancy terminations for adolescent women in urban slums, Bangladesh / Sabina Faiz Rashid -- Choosing abortion providers in rural Tamil Nadu : balancing costs and quality of care / Lakshmi Ramachandar and Pertti J. Pelto -- Abortion in Vietnam : history, culture and politics collide in the era of doi moi / Merrill Wolf ... [et al.] -- Abortion and politics in Indonesia / Terence H. Hull and Ninuk Widyantoro -- Access to abortion services in Malaysia : a rights-based approach / Rashidah Abdullah and Yut-Lin Wong -- Improving access to safe termination of pregnancy in Thailand : an analysis of the policy development during 1999 to 2006 / Nongluk Boonthai ... [et al.] -- Epilogue : further challenges / Andrea Whittaker.