Worldwide, 25 million unsafe abortions occurred every year between 2010 and 2014, according to a report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Guttmacher Institute. And that is surprising because safe abortion is a simple intervention, scientifically speaking," said Dr. Bela Ganatra of WHO department's of reproductive health and research. "There is an association between highly restrictive laws and unsafe abortion," she told a news briefing. Uruguay, Nepal and Ethiopia have made safe abortion accessible in recent years, she added. "Funding cuts to USAID, which is the channel through which family planning assistance is provided, has also been proposed in the U.S. budget," she said.

Source: Huffington Post September 28, 2017 13:41 UTC