Although the region’s post-abortion care is limited and, often, with no
contraceptive provision (Warriner and Shah, 2006), except for Cambodia,
Singapore and Viet Nam, abortion is illegal or officially limited to a
few conditions. Abortion rates are still high, with Viet Nam and Indonesia
having among the highest figures in the world. In Viet Nam, about
504,377 abortions or 38.7 abortions for every 100 live births were
recorded
in 2003 (Do Thi Hong Nga, 2008); and in Indonesia, 2 million
induced abortions were performed in 2000, implying that the annual
abortion rate is higher than that of Asia as a whole (37 and 24 abortions
per 1,000 women of reproductive age respectively