Unsafe abortion Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Conflating illegal and unsafe abortion== Unsafe abortions often occur [[abortion law|where abortion is illegal]].<ref name="Rosenthal2007"/> However, the prevalence of unsafe abortion may also be determined by other factors, such as whether it occurs in a [[developing country]] that has a low level of competent medical care.<ref name = "Chaudhuri_2007">{{cite book | vauthors = Chaudhuri SK | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=pzanxKlcU74C&pg=PA259 | title = Practice Of Fertility Control: A Comprehensive Manual | edition = 7th | page = 259 | publisher = Elsevier | location = India | date = 2007 | isbn=9788131211502 }}</ref> Unsafe abortions sometimes occur where abortion is legal, and safe abortions sometimes occur where abortion is illegal.<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Faúndes A, Barzelatto J | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=U89BF625xcwC&pg=PA21 | title = The Human Drama of Abortion: a Global Search for Consensus | page = 21 | publisher = Vanderbilt University Press | date = 2006 | isbn=9780826515261 }}</ref> Legalization is not always followed by elimination of unsafe abortion.<ref name=Blas>{{cite book | veditors = Blas E, Kurup AS | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=7JxutqCmctUC&pg=PA183 | title = Equity, social determinants and public health programmes | pages = 182–183 | publisher = World Health Organization | date = 2010 | isbn=9789241563970 }}</ref><ref name="WHO-unsafe-2007 2">{{cite web | publisher = [[World Health Organization]] | year = 2007 | access-date = March 7, 2011 | url = http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2007/9789241596121_eng.pdf |quote= In several countries, the legalization of abortion has not been followed by elimination of unsafe abortion.|title = Unsafe abortion: Global and regional estimates of the incidence of unsafe abortion and associated mortality in 2003}}</ref> Affordable safe services may be unavailable despite legality, and conversely, women may be able to afford medically competent services despite illegality.<ref>{{cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=9ZRendehUUQC&pg=PA12 | title = Safe Abortion: Technical and Policy Guidance for Health Systems | page = 15 | publisher = World Health Organization | date = 2003 | isbn = 9789241590341 }}</ref> When abortion is illegal, that generally contributes to the prevalence of unsafe abortion, but it is not the only contributor. In addition, a lack of access to safe and effective contraception contributes to unsafe abortion. It has been estimated that the incidence of unsafe abortion could be reduced by as much as 73% without any change in abortion laws if modern family planning and maternal health services were readily available globally.<ref name="Singh_2009" /> Illegality of abortion contributes to [[maternal mortality]], but that contribution is not as great as it once was, due to medical advances including [[penicillin]] and the [[birth control pill]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://factcheck.org/article336.html |title=Abortion Distortions: Senators from both sides make false claims about Roe v. Wade |date=2005-08-22 |access-date=2021-02-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726044751/http://factcheck.org/article336.html |archive-date=2011-07-26 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page