{"id":45381,"date":"2017-09-29T12:57:04","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T12:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=45381"},"modified":"2017-09-29T12:57:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T12:57:04","slug":"nearly-half-abortions-around-world-arent-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/health\/nearly-half-abortions-around-world-arent-safe.html","title":{"rendered":"WHO: Nearly half of abortions around world aren&#8217;t safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">WHO: Nearly half of abortions around world aren&#8217;t safe<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">WHO: Nearly half of abortions around world aren&#8217;t safe:-Between 2010 and 2014, nearly 56 million women around the world got abortions each year\u2014and the World Health Organization has found that almost half of them weren&#8217;t safe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Per a WHO\/Guttmacher Institute study published in the Lancet journal, of those 55.7 million annual abortions, just over 17 million fell into the &#8220;less safe&#8221; category, either because women used a mostly safe method (such as taking misoprostol pills) but without the guidance of a trained professional, or had a trained provider but used outdated methods.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">An additional 8 million abortions veered into the &#8220;least safe&#8221; category, using what the Guardian calls &#8220;desperate and dangerous backstreet measures,&#8221; including everything from &#8220;ingestion of caustic substances&#8221; to &#8220;insertion of foreign bodies.&#8221; The WHO looked at data from 182 countries and regions and found almost all of the abortions performed in developed countries were safe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">In both Africa and Latin America, fewer than one in four abortions were considered safe, with the highest percentage of &#8220;least safe&#8221; abortions taking place in Africa (especially in the middle of the continent), where almost half of the pregnancy terminations fell into this most-perilous category.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Per CNN, unsafe abortions can lead to everything from hemorrhaging and infection to incomplete abortions and even death. &#8220;It&#8217;s sad that there are so many unsafe abortions, when actually the science and technology for &#8230; safe [abortions] &#8230; is very simple,&#8221; study lead author Dr.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Bela Ganatra says, per Time. (A story about Down syndrome in Iceland set off a fierce debate on abortion.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Source:-http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2017\/09\/28\/who-nearly-half-abortions-around-world-arent-safe.html<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/health\/nearly-half-abortions-around-world-arent-safe.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHO: Nearly half of abortions around world aren&#8217;t safe WHO: Nearly half of abortions around world aren&#8217;t safe:-Between 2010 and 2014, nearly 56 million women around the world got abortions each year\u2014and the World Health Organization has found that almost half of them weren&#8217;t safe. 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