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OverviewEvery year, 40 million induced abortions occur globally (IPAS) and according to the 2000 estimates (WHO) 19 million unsafe abortions take place each year. According to WHO around 68,000 women die as a result of complications of unsafe abortion and between two million and seven million women each year survive unsafe abortion but sustain long-term damage or disease (incomplete abortion, infection (sepsis), haemorrhage and injury to the internal organs, such as puncturing or tearing of the uterus).(IPAS) According to WHO statistics, one in ten pregnancies ends in an unsafe abortion. The risk rate for unsafe abortion is 1/270, but according to other sources unsafe abortion is responsible for one in eight maternal deaths. In order to limit the number of death caused by unsafe abortion, WHO recommendations are: priority for prevention of unplanned pregnancies, followed by improving the quality of abortion services and of post-abortion care (when safe abortion services are not available, services to treat the complications of unsafe abortion can consume up to 50% of hospital resources).
Back-alley abortionA back-alley abortion (back street abortion in the United Kingdom) is the common slang term for an illegal abortion in the United States. The wire coat hanger method was a popularly known back alley abortions procedure, although they were not the norm. In fact, Mary Calderone, former medical director of Planned Parenthood, said, in a 1960 printing of the American Journal of Public Health:
Herbal abortions (when done illegally) can also be described as back-alley abortions, because they are not induced in a medical facility.[citation needed] ControversyThe back-alley abortion phenomenon received public attention leading up to the legal proceedings of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 United States Supreme Court decision which legalized abortion in America. Since then, it has become a central argument on the part of some prominent legal abortion advocates. The publication in Ms. magazine of a photo of Gerri Santoro who died of blood loss following a back-alley abortion was used extensively to illustrate the dangers of illegal abortions. Bernard Nathanson, a pro-life doctor who, by his account, formerly performed thousands of abortions, has renounced statistics of women who allegedly died from back-alley abortions in the United States. He has asserted on numerous occasions that he and several other colleagues, who later became instrumental in abortion's legalization, had fabricated and disseminated many statistics about back-alley abortions for the purpose of leading the public to adhere to their justification for abortion.[3] Notes
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