Hundreds of Nigerian women die every day of complications arising from unsafe abortions, an international NGO, Ipas, says.
Hundreds of Nigerian women die every day of complications arising from unsafe abortions, an international NGO, Ipas says.
According to the Ipas representative in Nigeria, of the 85 million women who get pregnant annually, 40 million of them usually end up having abortions, with developing countries accounting for 98 per cent of the unsafe abortions.Palmer expressed sadness that Nigeria was yet to reform restrictive domestic laws and policies that placed women and girls’ health and lives at risk; as well as preventing them from exercising rights that the government had committed to under the international law.
“That results in almost 10 million unintended pregnancies, of which more than half end in an induced abortion,’’ he said. Speaking on International Commitments to Women’s Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights, one of the workshop facilitators, Mrs Doris Ikpeze, said women’s health was more than health policy, it was an issue of human right which was constantly being violated by bad policies and laws, weak institutions and societal norms.
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