,Preventing Unsafe Abortion and its Consequences: Priorities for Research and Action

Preventing Unsafe Abortion and its Consequences: Priorities for Research and Action


 

Publication Date: March 2006

Publisher: Guttmacher Institute

Author(s): Ina K. Warriner; Iqbal H. Shah

Research Area: Health

Type: Report

Abstract:

Each year, an estimated 210 million women throughout the world become pregnant and about one in five of them resort to abortion. Out of 46 million abortions performed annually, 19 million are estimated to be unsafe.