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Abortion was first legalised in South Africa under the Abortion and Sterilization Act, 1975 (Act No.2 of 1975). [8] This law stated that women could access pregnancy terminations if; continuing the pregnancy could be life-threatening or cause serious health issues, continuing the pregnancy could be of severe risk to the woman's mental health, the child is likely to be born with significant ...
Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest rate of abortions resulting in deaths, at 185 per 100,000, as of 2019. The rate has gone down from 315 per 100,000 in 2010. The highest fatality rate is in Middle Africa and the lowest is in Southern Africa , where most abortions are legal. [ 1 ]
Country Rate per . 1,000 women per year Number of abortions per year Year Age range Greenland 84.7 870 2022 [7] [8]: 17–64 Vietnam 64.0 1,630,000 2019 [9]: 15–49 Madagascar
The money would have provided 8 million women globally with family planning help, preventing 6 million unintended pregnancies, 1.8 million unsafe abortions and 20,000 pregnancy-related deaths, she ...
Africa is alone globally in having such a treaty, but more than a dozen of its countries have yet to pass laws granting women access to abortions. Even in those that have legalized the procedure ...
The Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1996 (Act No. 92 of 1996) is the law governing abortion in South Africa.It allows abortion on demand up to the twelfth week of pregnancy, under broadly specified circumstances from the thirteenth to the twentieth week, and only for serious medical reasons after the twentieth week.
Maternal deaths: The annual number of female deaths from any cause related to or aggravated by pregnancy or its management (excluding accidental or incidental causes) during pregnancy and childbirth or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy, expressed per 100,000 live births, for a ...
[137] [28] For example, the 1996 legalization of abortion in South Africa led to an immediate reduction in abortion-related complications, [142] with abortion-related deaths dropping by more than 90%. [143] Similar reductions in maternal mortality have been observed after other countries have liberalized their abortion laws, such as Romania and ...