Each year, an estimated 20 million unsafe abortions occur
worldwide. About 70,000 women, the vast majority of them in
developing countries, die from the consequences of these
abortions, and untold numbers suffer severe health effects. Even
though abortion is legal in almost all countries to save a
woman's life and in three-fifths of countries to protect her
physical and mental health, safe abortion services are often not
provided by public health systems or are of poor quality. Our
resources on abortion provide information and frameworks for
developing policy that regards access to safe and legal abortion
as a human right. Browse our resources on safe and legal
abortion below. Written By International Women's Health
CoalitionSaturday, 03 December 2005 By Juan Forero The New York
Times, December 3, 2005 PAMPLONA, Colombia – In this tradition-
bound Roman Catholic town one day in April, two young women did
what many here consider unthinkable: pregnant and scared, they
took a cheap ulcer medication known to induc