Overview

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Key facts abortions take place
Abortion Abortion is a common health
worldwide each year. Six out
of 10 (61%) of all unintended
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duration and by someone with the
intervention that can be effectively
necessary skills.
managed by a wide range of health
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surgical procedure. In the first 12
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at home), in whole or in part. This
preventable – cause of maternal
requires that the woman has access
deaths and morbidities. It can lead
to accurate information, quality
to physical and mental health
medicines and support from a
complications and social and
trained health worker
financial burdens for women,
communities and health systems.
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Scope of the of inaccessible
problem quality
When carried out using a abortion care
method recommended by
Lack of access to safe, affordable,
WHO appropriate to the
pregnancy duration, and by
timely and respectful abortion
someone with the necessary care, and the stigma associated
skills, abortion is a safe health with abortion, pose risks to
care intervention. women’s physical and mental well-
When carried out using a being throughout the life-course.
method recommended by
WHO appropriate to the
Inaccessibility of quality abortion
care risks violating a range of Thanks
pregnancy duration, and by human rights of women and girls,
someone with the necessary including the right to life; the right
skills, abortion is a safe health to the highest attainable standard
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affordable, geographically responsibly on the number,
reachable, respectful and non- spacing and timing of children; and
discriminatory abortion, they the right to be free from torture,
often resort to unsafe abortion. cruel, inhuman and degrading
treatment and punishment.