Lives Worth Saving: Abortion Care in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Publisher:
- Ipas
- Publication Date:
- 21 July 2004
- Tags:
- Health and Medicine, Women and Gender, Environment
In every part of the world, in every era of history, women from all walks of life have obtained abortions to end unintended pregnancies. Despite the history and universality of women's need for safe abortion care, access to abortion is neither socially nor legally sanctioned in many parts of the world. As a result, almost half of the women seeking abortions each year - 19 million - must resort to untrained providers working in unsanitary conditions. A quarter of these unsafe abortions occur in Africa.
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