Reducing Unsafe Abortion Key To Saving Lives In Africa, Guttmacher's Camp Writes

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Unsafe abortion is one of the "biggest health threats to women" in Africa, where 5.5 million women per year risk their lives trying to terminate a pregnancy by drinking bleach, inserting sharp objects into the cervix or using other dangerous methods, Guttmacher Institute President and CEO Sharon Camp writes in the Guardian's "Poverty Matters." Approximately 26,000 of these women die and another 1...

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