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Country Rate per . 1,000 women per year Number of abortions per year Year Age range Greenland 84.7 870 2022 [9] [10]: 17–64 Vietnam 64.0 1,630,000 2019 [11]: 15–49 Madagascar
Adolescent health creates a major global burden and has a great deal of additional and diverse complications compared to adult reproductive health such as early pregnancy and parenting issues, difficulties accessing contraception and safe abortions, lack of healthcare access, and high rates of HIV, sexually transmitted infections and mental health issues.
Groups such as the World Health Organization have advocated a public-health approach to addressing unsafe abortion, emphasizing the legalization of abortion, the training of medical personnel, and ensuring access to reproductive-health services. [43] An unsafe abortion can lead to wide range of health risks that can affect the well-being of ...
An article from the World Health Organization calls safe, legal abortion a "fundamental right of women, irrespective of where they live" and unsafe abortion a "silent pandemic". [130] The article states "ending the silent pandemic of unsafe abortion is an urgent public-health and human-rights imperative."
A woman advocating for reproductive justice, specifically abortion rights, outside the Supreme Court of the United States in 2012. Reproductive justice is a critical feminist framework that was invented as a response to United States reproductive politics. The three core values of reproductive justice are the right to have a child, the right to ...
The World Health Organization [14] defines sexual health as: "Sexual health is a state of physical, mental and social well-being in relation to sexuality. It requires a positive and respectful approach to sexuality and sexual relationships, as well as the possibility of having pleasurable and safe sexual experiences, free of coercion ...
According to a 2007 study conducted by the Guttmacher Institute and the World Health Organization, abortion rates are similar in countries where the procedure is legal and in countries where it is not, [2] [3] due to unavailability of modern contraceptives in areas where abortion is illegal. [4]
Abortion and mental health. Scientific and medical expert bodies have repeatedly concluded that abortion poses no greater mental health risks than carrying an unintended pregnancy to term. [1] [2] [3] Nevertheless, the relationship between induced abortion and mental health is an area of political controversy.