Dead women in the name of "morality"

[the_future_modernes]

RIGHTS: Unsafe Abortions Killing 70,000 a Year

LONDON, Oct 14 (IPS) - Unsafe abortions kill about 70,000 women a year, says a report by the U.S.- based Guttmacher Institute. An additional five million women are treated annually for complications arising from unsafe abortion, adds the report, based on a global survey.

The institute, which seeks to advance sexual and reproductive health through research and policy education, notes that the number of abortions worldwide fell from 45.5 million in 1995 to 41.6 million in 2003. But that has still not reduced the number of deaths.

"Unsafe abortions, including deaths from unsafe abortions, have not changed, even though overall rates of abortion are declining," Sharon Camp, president of the Guttmacher Institute, told IPS in an interview.

"The explanation for this is that populations of women are growing faster in various parts of the world that are least likely to make safe abortion widely available, and so women in some of the poorest countries of the world with the most rapid rates of population growth are having unsafe abortions at the same rate as they have for the last decade," she said. More