• DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0412.2011.01165.x
Corpus ID: 27737728

Unsafe abortion and postabortion care – an overview

@article{Rasch2011UnsafeAA,
  title={Unsafe abortion and postabortion care – an overview},
  author={V. Rasch},
  journal={Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica},
  year={2011},
  volume={90}
}

V. Rasch

Published 2011

Medicine

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica

Forty per cent of the world's women are living in countries with restrictive abortion laws, which prohibit abortion or only allow abortion to protect a woman's life or her physical or mental health. In countries where abortion is restricted, women have to resort to clandestine interventions to have an unwanted pregnancy terminated. As a consequence, high rates of unsafe abortion are seen, such as in Sub‐Saharan Africa where unsafe abortion occurs at rates of 18–39 per 1 000 women. The… CONTINUE READING

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