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Article: Report: Abortion rates dropping worldwide
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- October 14, 2009
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NEW YORK - Increased contraceptive use has led to fewer abortions
worldwide, but deaths from unsafe abortion remain a severe problem,
killing 70,000 women per year, a research institute reported Tuesday
in a major global survey.
More than half the deaths, about 38,000, are in sub-Saharan
Africa, which was singled out as the region with by far the lowest
rates of contraceptive use and the highest rates of unintended
pregnancies.
The report, three years in the making, was compiled by the New
York-based
Guttmacher Institute, which supports abortion rights and is a
leading source of data on abortion-related trends. Researchers
examined data from individual countries and multinational ...