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LONDON (Reuters) - A long-term decline in the rates of abortion worldwide has stalled and the proportion of terminations that are unsafe and put women's lives at risk is rising, an international group of scientists said on Thursday.
Researchers from the World Health (WHO) and the Guttmacher Institute, which researches sexual and reproductive health, said a trend of falling numbers of abortions between 1995 and 2003 had leveled out since then, suggesting that increased access to contraception worldwide has also stalled.
"We are also seeing a growing proportion of abortions occurring in developing countries where the procedure is often clandestine and unsafe," said Gilda Sedgh, lead author of the study and a senior researcher...
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