{"id":313502,"date":"2024-06-09T11:46:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T16:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=313502"},"modified":"2024-06-10T12:53:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T17:53:58","slug":"woman-suicide-parents-husband-coerce-abort-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/woman-suicide-parents-husband-coerce-abort-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman commits suicide after husband and his parents coerce her to abort second daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A woman in India has reportedly committed suicide<\/a> after being coerced into an abortion.<\/p>\n

According to police, Sandu Kavya Sri, age 20, married her husband Sandu Srikantah two years ago, and together they welcomed a daughter, who is now 10 months old. Kavya Sri became pregnant a second time and was five months along when at the end of May, her husband took her for an ultrasound that revealed their second child was also a girl. She then decided to stay with her parents, but was pressured by her husband and his parents to undergo an abortion, because the child was not a boy.<\/p>\n

Kavya Sri’s father, Errapothu Raja, told police that Srikantah and his parents took Kavya to the hospital multiple times while pressuring her to abort her baby. After the abortion was eventually carried out, Kavya Sri attempted to kill herself, and though her husband and parents found her and rushed her to a private hospital, she died while undergoing treatment there.<\/p>\n

Research has long found<\/a> a connection between induced abortion and depression. Though abortion advocates often cite the flawed Turnaway Study<\/a>\u00a0to argue that women are damaged when they are denied abortions, research shows that whether a baby is wanted or unwanted, women still have much higher risks<\/a> of depression and suicidal ideation after abortion.<\/p>\n

Jade Rees, a 21-year-old single mother in the UK, killed herself<\/a> by hanging after her abortion. She had previously attempted to overdose twice in 48 hours. The Daily Mail reported, “Miss Rees left handwritten notes addressed to her parents and two-year-old son, explaining the struggle she had faced since the devastating procedure, in which she stressed that her little boy \u2018means everything to me\u2019.”<\/p>\n

In 2022, it was reported that a woman in India hanged<\/a> herself following 14 abortions, which a man she was in a relationship with coerced her to undergo.<\/p>\n