Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Nagpur businessman helps run online abortion clinic...

Amidst rows of capsules and other pharmaceuticals that line the shelves of his drug export business in Nagpur, Mohan Kale stores two box-files crammed with e-mails from grateful women. "God bless you. We're living in a country where women don't have basic rights. I got scared when I got pregnant," writes one from Pakistan. Another from Thailand reads, "Now that I'm no longer pregnant, I'm very happy. Thank you, Women on Web. I love you."

Every month, Kale couriers 2,000 kits containing one mifepristone and four misoprostol tablets to women in countries where abortions are restricted.

These tablets, if consumed within the first nine weeks, help women terminate their pregnancies. Their sale is legal in India with a prescription. However, 26% of the world's population lives in 72 countries where abortion is prohibited altogether or allowed only to save the mother's life, says a World Health Organization report.

 The 44-year-old owner of Kale Impex may never have joined the ranks of abortion-rights activists if he hadn't met Dutch physician Rebecca Gomperts in 2012. A Dutch physician, Gomperts attracted international media attention in 2001 when she fitted a ship with a mobile abortion clinic and set sail for Dublin. Her plan was to bring women on board and give them the pills in international waters; thus, circumventing Ireland's strict anti-abortion laws. Full story...

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