‘It’s a secret in my life’: frontstage and backstage experiences of women undergoing induced abortions in a rural community of Pakistan

Table 2 Constructed categories based on the data collected regarding ‘avoiding stigma in cases of induced abortion’

Core category	Categories	Sub-categories
Women who opt for induced abortion and apply stigma-management strategies	Cultural position of abortion and miscarriage	Induced abortion as a cause of stigma
	Cultural position of abortion and miscarriage	Miscarriage as natural and acceptable in the community
	Backstage activities	Secret attempts to abort a pregnancy
	Backstage activities	Active support system and its activities
	Frontstage activities	Abortion staged as miscarriage
	Frontstage activities	Abortion memories: Women coping with recollection of memories

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