Late last year the discovery of more than 2,000 foetuses in a temple publicly revealed an uncomfortable and unsurprising truth: each year, abortion is a reality for tens of thousands of women and their partners in Thailand. Although there is a lack of definitive data, conservative estimates suggest that well over 300,000 abortions occur every year here. This is an extrapolation based on known cases, a small percentage of the overall total. A good proportion of these abortions are unsafe, performed by unlicensed people, and perhaps that is one of the most distressing aspects of what is happening; there are women in Thailand dying due to the dangers involved with unsafe abortion. Furthermore, this is made even more tragic because it is an entirely preventable situation and is happening despite all of our medical advances.