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Life useful educational material for adolescents Abortion

Centre for Health Education, Training and Nutrition Awareness
Lilavatiben Lalbhai’s Bungalow, Civil Camp Road, Shahibaug, Ahmodabad-380 004. Gujarat, India Gram CHETNESS
Phone : 868856-866695 Fax : 91-079-866513 and 91-079-420242

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Life useful educational material for adolescents

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This educational material has been prepared to impart life useful education to adolescents. This
material comprises of four flip books which are to be used along with CHETNA’s publication
Child Birth Picture Book, available in various Indian languages. Use these flipbooks
chronologically.

How to use this flip book
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Hold this flip book by both the hands carefully. Ensure that the illustrations face the group.
lake care that, the illustrations are not hidden by your hands.

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When the illustrations are facing the group, you will be able to see the writings relevant
to the illustrations. To attract the group’s attention make the story interesting by narrating
it with expressions.

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When you are telling the story, kindly point out with your finger the characters and
incidents, in the illustrations. This will help the group to concentrate.

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On the last page of this flip book, some questions have been given. Kindly initiate
discussions with the help of these questions.

Acknowledgements
We would like to thank Shree Sanjay Sarkar, Ex-Student, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, who contributed actively
in the development of this material.
We would also like to express our sincere thanks to the Management and Staff of Vikas Sansthan - Jambusar, Ashadeep
- Vallabh Vidhyanagar and Tribuvandas Foundation - Anand, for their support during the field testing of this material. Lastly
we are grateful to the adolescent girls and boys who provided their valuable feedback on the material.

CHETNA Team

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Abortion
Abortion is often considered a sin or a crime, but one must not forget that it is a bigger crime
to be instrumental in leading an entire family in a permanent state of deprivation or bringing
someone to life and later not being able to provide even the basic needs like love, affection, food
and shelter. One must very critically examine ones own definition of life. Whether giving life is
important or giving a quality life is important.

It is therefore important to avoid unwanted pregnancy, but if the couple ends up with an unwanted
pregnancy, they can go to the Primary Health Care Centres as soon as possible for the abor
tion.

They should not resort to witch doctors,indigenous medicines, or some home-remedies tactics.
Because if abortion is not done in a hygenic and scientific way, it may result in vaginal/uterus
infections. There is also the fear of rupture of uterus and heavy bleeding.
It should be realised that bringing a child to earth is a major responsibility. It is not enough mere
ly to give birth; appropriate care, food, education, nurturance and fosterance is necessary. This
can be done either by keeping a gap between two children (by the use of contraceptive of the
couple’s choice) or by limiting their number (by permanent operation, vasectomy or tubectomy).

But one must not forget that abortion is not a family planning method. Frequent abortions may
result in anaemia, infections, weakness and other complications for the woman’s health.

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I am Sushila. My husband is a farmer and we have three
children. Due to lack of information on contraceptives we had
three children one after another, immediately after marriage.
My children were born weak. I am also undernourished, i
spend the whole day taking care of my children. I do not
get any opportunity to work outside, which I regret.At present
we are using condom (To explain about contraceptives
please refer Child Birth Picture Book).

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Due to the failure of contraceptive I am pregnant again. I am
not keeping well. I am not looking forward to this child.
My relatives say that children are the gifts of God and we
should accept them. I feel strongly that with the birth of one
more child, my health will further detoriate. Also my dream
to get involved in economic activities would never come true.
After a lot of thinking I have decided to go for an abortion.

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I talked to my husband about this. I explained to him that
we already had three children. They were weak. If we had
been careful earlier and used contraceptives to keep gap
between two children, our children would have been
healthier. I would have been able to earn for the family, if
we had one more child, we would not be able to take care
of our children. My husband got convinced and agreed for
an abortion.

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\/\/e went to a hospital and got the fourth child aborted. My
husband has also started helping me in my housework, and
so my workload has reduced considerably. We are happy
now.
After narrating the story initiate the discussion on
following questions.

• Should we keep on having children because they are
God’s gifts?
• Is abortion a sin?
• Is abortion a method of family planning?

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