Nearly half of world’s 56 million abortions ‘unsafe’ – study

PARIS: Close to half of the approximately 56 million abortions performed every year worldwide are unsafe, researchers said Wednesday in a study.

All but a relative handful of those 25.5 million risky abortions—which can endanger the lives of mother, child or both—occurred in Africa, Asia and Latin America, they reported in The Lancet medical journal.