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In many countries, women are criminalised, women are mutilated, women die als a result of criminalising abortion. The facts are are often gruesome and always humiliating violations of human rights.
Every 6 minutes a woman dies needlessly from an unsafe, illegal abortion.
Induced abortion is one of the most performed medical interventions. Making abortion illegal does not reduce the number of abortions. 20 million of the 42 million abortions performed annually ...Abortion Laws Worldwide
Approximately 25% of the world's population lives in countries with highly restrictive abortion laws, mostly in Latin America, Africa and Asia.
