Nine arrested for abortion<\/p>\n
SURABAYA: Police have arrested nine people including a doctor
\nand a midwife for allegedly conducting 397 abortions. Some of the
\nwomen were pregnant by up to seven months, Antara reported.<\/p>\n
The news agency quoted East Java Police Spokesman Lt. Col.
\nSutrisno T.S. as saying in a media briefing that police
\n\"discovered the practice on Wednesday at 11 a.m.\" Arrests were
\nmade immediately.<\/p>\n
The nine were identified only as Dr. K.P., midwife S.D.,
\nbroker P.W., a man called P.G. and his wife A.A., servant P.R.,
\nhospital employee M.S., whose job it was to seek out women
\nwanting abortions, M.S.D., who buried the aborted fetuses, and
\nS.W.T., who worked at Simokwagen cemetery.<\/p>\n
Sutrisno said the practice opened in 1997 and was initially
\nrun from P.G.'s house and an unnamed hospital. Fees ranged from
\nRp 500,000 (US$71) to Rp 1.5 million, depending on how far gone
\nthe pregnancy was.<\/p>\n
Police also confiscated medications, syringes, correspondence
\nand receipts from a drug store that sold medicine without the
\nnecessary prescriptions.<\/p>\n
One of the women who used the abortion service was P.G.'s
\ngirlfriend, Sutrisno said.<\/p>",
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