Induced abortion is one of the major health problems that affect the quality of life of women in reproductive age. This issue was addressed for special consideration in the 5th International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo, Egypt from 5-13 September 1994. In many countries, including Thailand, induced abortion is illegal. As a result, determining statistics can only be done through estimation, which is sometimes an inaccurate measure of the true incidence rate. It was estimated that in 1987 there were 35-53 million induced abortions worldwide and 20-40 percent were unsafe. Regarding our neighbour countries there were 400,000 cases of induced abortion in the Philippines and 730,000 in Bangladesh. Frequent immediate and long term complications arising from unsafe abortion are, incomplete abortion, hemorrhage, uterus perforation, intestinal perforation, peritonitis, infection, shock, ectopic pregnancy, infertility and death. The world figure is estimated at 50,000-100,000 deaths cause by unsafe abortion each year.