Thailand Revisits Abortion Laws After Grim Discovery

Thailand Revisits Abortion Laws After Grim Discovery : NPR: In Thailand, at Bangkok's Wat Phai Ngern, or Silver Bamboo Temple, lottery ticket vendors line the path to a mortuary where bodies are usually stored for cremation. On a recent day, one of the vendors explains that the hot-selling lottery ticket numbers that day are 02, 07 and 27.

Two is for the 2,002 dead fetuses police found in the mortuary on Nov. 16. Seven is for the number on the mortuary door where the fetuses were first discovered, after neighbors complained about a foul odor. And 27 is the date in November when the temple organized a large ceremony to pray for the souls of the aborted babies.

The vendor any many of her customers believe an unseen spiritual force near the mortuary makes those numbers especially lucky. Many Thais want to reform their country's abortion laws to make them easier to obtain.