The lack of access to a safe abortion during a pandemic results in 45% of all abortions globally being unsafe.
Johannesburg – As the world commemorated International Safe Abortion Day yesterday, health experts weighed in on the fact that abortion care is not seen as an essential service during a pandemic.
DKT Woman Care and the Independent Physician Association hosted an in-person round-table discussion at the Radison Blu Hotel in Sandton to mark International Safe Abortion Day. “With hundreds of thousands of survivors living with long-term complications, including infertility and chronic pain, of these unsafe abortions, 97% take place in South-Central Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America,” he said.
He said since the pandemic, the unsafe abortion percentage had increased significantly because it was not seen as an essential service.
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