HANOI: At a small Hanoi cemetery, Nguyen Van Thao opens a fridge and pulls out a bag of bloody foetuses to prepare for burial - a grim reminder that Vietnam has one of the highest abortion rates in the world.
Around 40 percent of pregnancies in the country end in abortion, according to a report by doctors from Hanoi’s Central Obstetrics Hospital, the figure is double the rate given by official statistics.
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