Nine arrested for abortion

Nine arrested for abortion

SURABAYA: Police have arrested nine people including a doctor
and a midwife for allegedly conducting 397 abortions. Some of the
women were pregnant by up to seven months, Antara reported.

The news agency quoted East Java Police Spokesman Lt. Col.
Sutrisno T.S. as saying in a media briefing that police
"discovered the practice on Wednesday at 11 a.m." Arrests were
made immediately.

The nine were identified only as Dr. K.P., midwife S.D.,
broker P.W., a man called P.G. and his wife A.A., servant P.R.,
hospital employee M.S., whose job it was to seek out women
wanting abortions, M.S.D., who buried the aborted fetuses, and
S.W.T., who worked at Simokwagen cemetery.

Sutrisno said the practice opened in 1997 and was initially
run from P.G.'s house and an unnamed hospital. Fees ranged from
Rp 500,000 (US$71) to Rp 1.5 million, depending on how far gone
the pregnancy was.

Police also confiscated medications, syringes, correspondence
and receipts from a drug store that sold medicine without the
necessary prescriptions.

One of the women who used the abortion service was P.G.'s
girlfriend, Sutrisno said.