Recently, a 25-year-old unmarried woman in Thimphu went to her friend. She was desperately looking for abortion pills. She could not find them in medical stores in Thimphu.

Staff at one of the medical stores said that both men and women visited the drugstores looking for misoprostol, a drug that’s used to abort pregnancy during the early days.

A staff of Namsey Pharmacy, Choki Wangmo, said: “We get at least six people a week who come for abortion pills. Normally, we don’t get as many customers looking for abortion pills.”

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