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Each year at least 2 million young women worldwide
have unsafe abortions mainly due to:
- Inaccessibility or costs of safe services
- Self-induced methods
- Unskilled or non-medical providers
- Delay in seeking procedure past first 3 months of
pregnancy
Family planning can reduce unsafe
abortion
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Unintended pregnancies among young women account for at least
2 million unsafe abortions each year worldwide. Abortions may
be unsafe for a number of reasons. Safe services may not be
accessible or affordable for many young women. Therefore, they
may try to self-induce or have the procedure performed by an
unskilled or nonmedical provider. Due to cost and other reasons,
young women are also more likely to postpone abortion until
after the first trimester, which makes the procedure more risky.
Young women with abortion complications may delay getting treatment,
which can worsen their condition. Greater access to family planning
among young women can reduce the number of unintended pregnancies
and reduce the number of unsafe abortions.
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