 According to another a report by the Guttmacher Institute, abortion, despite being legal in the county, is not widely available because of the shame and stigma attached to it, thus forcing women to opt for alternative unsafe routes like “deep massage abortion” — a traditional practice.Abortion has a history in Cambodia and one of the traditional methods of deep massage abortion - where pressure is applied to a pregnant woman's stomach to abort the fetus, can be seen in one of the stone carvings in the 12th century temple of Angkor Wat in Cambodia.The next carving shows that the same woman and the people who helped her in terminating the pregnancy by massage of abdomen, are condemned to ‘underworld”.