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Bookmark or Share- Abortion - World Health Organization (WHO)Abortion regulations that force people to travel to attain legal care, or that require mandatory counselling or waiting periods, burden health systems and can result in women experiencing travel costs, loss of income or the need to resort to unsafe abortion.
- Abortion - World Health Organization (WHO)Abortion is a simple health care intervention that can be safely and effectively managed by a wide range of health workers using medication or a surgical procedure. In the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, a medical abortion can also be safely self-managed by the pregnant person outside of a health care facility (e.g. at home), in whole or in part.
- Worldwide, an estimated 25 million unsafe abortions occur each yearDeaths from complications of unsafe abortion were high in regions where most abortions happened in the least safe circumstances. Complications from “least-safe” abortions can include incomplete abortion (failure to remove all of the pregnancy tissue from the uterus), haemorrhage, vaginal, cervical and uterine injury, and infections.
- Ask the expert: 10 questions on safe abortion careIn July 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) hosted a Twitter space with Dr Bela Ganatra, head of the Prevention of Unsafe Abortion unit in the WHO Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research (SRH), including HRP, on improving access to comprehensive abortion care everywhere.
- Abortion care guideline - World Health Organization (WHO)Abortion care guideline: executive summary (incl. Arabic, Chinese, French, Japanese, Russian, Spanish) Medical management of abortion (summary chart of recommendations) Medical management of abortion (Pocket guide of recommendations) Towards a supportive law and policy environment for quality abortion care: evidence brief
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