Nearly Half of All Pregnancies Worldwide are Unintended and 60% of those end in abortion

[Demovictory9]

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/unseen-crisis-nearly-half-all-pregnancies-worldwide-unintended-jalan

UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, is sounding the alarm on a human rights crisis that has ramifications for women, societies, and the world. Its 2022 State of World Population report, Seeing the Unseen: The case for action in the neglected crisis of unintended pregnancy, estimates that nearly half of all pregnancies worldwide are unintended — totaling 121 million unintended pregnancies each year. The report builds on new data from the Guttmacher Institute and the World Health Organization (WHO) that outlines the first-ever estimates of unintended pregnancy and abortion at the country level, highlighting major disparities across 150 countries in access to quality sexual and reproductive health care.

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Myriad factors, rooted in gender inequality, are stripping people of their fundamental decision-making power over their bodies. This includes a lack of quality sexual and reproductive health care and information, including preferred methods of contraception, as well as harmful societal norms or stigma around reproduction and bodily autonomy, intimate partner or sexual violence or coercion, and harmful laws and policies. These factors are compounded for people who are already marginalized due to identifiers such as age, marital status, rural or urban dwelling, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, income and education level, or ability.

Unsurprisingly, then, countries with higher rates of gender inequality had higher rates of unintended pregnancy, with just 57% of women able to make their own decisions over their sexual and reproductive health and rights. In a world where nearly 1 in 3 young women are giving birth before the age of 20, can a person imagine a life where pregnancy is a choice, not a given? Do their reproductive intentions even matter?

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The true scope of the impacts of unintended pregnancy are wide-ranging and impossible to quantify. What we can attempt to measure, however, is alarming: More than 60 percent of unintended pregnancies end in abortion, and nearly half of those abortions are unsafe, and directly lead to five to 13 percent of all maternal deaths worldwide — what the report calls a public health emergency.

[niyad]

1. and the WAR ON WOMEN continues apace. Would you consider cross-posting this in

Women's Rights And Issues? Thanks in advance.

[Demovictory9]

3. yes. will do

[Diamond_Dog]

2. K&R

[underpants]

4. I had no idea.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. These data really illuminate the gender inequality problem and it's horrifying.

We now have a sharp look at what women all over the world are dealing with. It is a call to arms.

Thank you so much for your post!

[PortTack]

6. I can't blame anyone for not wanting to bring a child into this f..ked up mess of a world right now!

[hunter]

7. The best ways to reduce abortions are realistic sex education and easy access to birth control.

If we add the economic and political empowerment of women to the mix we can save the world. Abortion becomes a non-issue, much rarer but always available.

My mom had the "Choose Life" license plate frames on her car. She and my dad also had more children than they could comfortably support. That was celebrated by religion. Big families were embraced by churches.

My mom and dad eventually saw the folly of that and became strong believers in birth control and had no reservations promoting it. My mom was the neighborhood "auntie" who would explain the facts of life to kids, explaining condoms and birth control pills, which is why some of the neighborhood kids were banned by their parents from our house.

Me and my siblings and my parents lived in a small very crowded three bedroom house. Occasionally other people, including my crazy grandma, were living there as well. And there was often some refugee artist or queer person sleeping on the sofa. Taking a shower took some planning if you wanted hot water. Nevertheless, my mom told us we could always bring any accidental babies home. Me and my siblings were so terrified by the prospect of any new humans in the house that we didn't have children until we ourselves were very secure and living in our own places.

[Demovictory9]

8. I have noticed that very few members of anti birth control religions have more than 2 kids

Funny how that works
.. Putting money in the tithing plate on.sunday but not following the rules

And probably.feeling darn happy birth control exists

[I_UndergroundPanther]

9. and making sure rapists

be they known to the victim or not, are punished and the rapist faces serious time for rape.
And the rape test kits must be done,not stuffed on a back shelf and forgotten about.

[hunter]

10. Rapists often go unpunished in our society, even serial rapists.

It's disgusting, but many people in our society admire rapists, which is how we get rotten Presidents like Trump, bad cops, and judges who will dismiss rape charges as "boys will be boys."

[I_UndergroundPanther]

11. yes its time rapists got treated like the criminals they are.

The trauma caused by rape affects someone long after the incident, it can last years even a lifetime to recover from.

If I had my way,rapists would be jailed forever or be castrated if they want to get out of jail.