CEDAW Shadow Report  2011  Nepal is the first South Asian country to legalize abortion in this way (Binda Pandey, Workers News 32, 2002). However, according to the NDHS 2006, 33% cases relating to abortion complications admitted in hospitals consist of unwanted pregnancies. The trend of back street unsafe abortion still persists in most of the areas of Nepal because people On May 20, 2009, the supreme court ordered the Government of Nepal to formulate law on comprehensive do not know exactly what safe abortion ensuring women to access safe and affordable abortion means. According to the abortion services .The court ruling was on the Lakshmi study conducted in Makawanpur Dhikta v. Government of Nepal, filed as a public interest district, women hesitate to go to case in support of Dhikta’s case on February 22, 2007 by the Center for reproductive rights, New York along with the government hospital for the Center’s Nepalese Partners - the Forum for Women, abortion because of the fear that Law, and Development, the Women Victims Legal Aid they would be recognized by other Clinic at Kathmandu School of Law, the forum for members of society so they want protection of Public Interest (Pro-Public) and individual attorneys. The court asked the government to set up a fund to make abortion private. On the to cover the cost of abortion for poor and rural women other hand, women in Morang and invest enough resources to meet the demands for district preferred to go to abortion services and to educate the public and health government hospital for abortion services providers on the existing abortion law. Dhikta, a mother of five children belonging to an extremely poor instead of the clinics like Marie family in the rural western Nepal, could not afford to pay Stopes so that they would not be the fee charged for abortion at a public hospital. The caught in the places where women doctors asked her for 1130 Nepalese Rupees generally visit for family planning (approximately $ 15) which she did not have. As a result she was forced to carry the pregnancy to term and became and abortion related matters. a mother for the sixth time (Source: http//reproductive These cases are important to rights.org). understand that women in the so called urban and sub urban areas are still unaware of their health rights. They are still living a life in fear of social stigma regarding their right towards their own body. A Supreme Court Case Lakshmi Dhikta v. Government of Nepal This also acts as an important indicator of the women’s life in the remote areas of Nepal where they have no easy access to the health care facilities and therefore they are still adopting the traditional ways of unsafe abortion form unskilled personnel putting their life at risk of death.It is regrettable that there is no data in the government report concerning safe abortion procedures adopted. Abortion as such is not a method of family planning; it could be the result of the inaccessibility of the measures or contraceptives for family planning. Abortion becomes important only in the cases like unwanted conception from pre-marital pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, rape, incest or any other of such kind. According to Safe Motherhood Federation of Nepal (2008), the place of the highest number of death is home (67.4%), while 14.4% at the hospital, 11.4% died on the way to a health institution, 4.5% at private clinics and 2.3% at PHCs. This shows not only the lack of access of health services but also lack of appropriate technology and resources at the public 7  Beyond Beijing Committee, Kathmandu, Nepal