A BBC report notes that a recent World Health Organization (WHO) report states that there is a global rise in what the WHO characterized as "dangerous abortions." The global percentage of these abortions, defined as those procedures conducted by untrained personnel, reached 49% in 2008, a five percent increase over the previous 13 years.
Disturbingly, the WHO study found that over 19 of 20 abortions conducted in Africa are "unsafe."
For women, the report is depressing news. Meanwhile, religious fanatics continue to pursue a rigidly moral agenda whose purpose is to prevent women from controlling their own bodies, and by extension, their fate.
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