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(1,244 posts)Millions of women are risking serious illness or injury every year as a result of clandestine and unsafe abortions, a report has warned.
Even in countries where termination of a pregnancy is legal, women are turning to underground providers, risking long-term health problems and, in the most severe cases, death.
A new report on womens access to abortion around the world by United States think tank the Guttmacher Institute estimates that up to 31,000 women die every year as a result of botched abortions and around seven million are injured or made ill.
Complications include incomplete abortion, when part of the fetal tissue is left in the uterus; infection; heavy bleeding; and damage to the genital tract and internal organs when a sharp object such as a stick, glass or knitting needle is inserted.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/20/millions-women-risk-backstreet-abortions