73% of all abortions done by married women- Study

Not less than 41 million abortions totalling 73 percent of all abortions in the world between 2010 and 2014, were obtained by married women, according to a new study by the Guttmacher Institute and the World Health Organisation. The study, which found that between 2010–2014, a quarter of all pregnancies worldwide ended in abortion, said by marital status, the estimated abortion rate in 2010–2014 was 35 per 1,000 women – 36 per 1,000 for married women and 25 per 1,000 for unmarried women. A publication of the study in the Lancet entitled:  “Abortion incidence between 1990 and 2014: global, regional, and subregional levels and trends,” by Gilda Sedgh et al., noted that, although the overall number of abortions per 1,000 women of childbearing age (15–44 years old) in developed countries dropped from 46 to 27, in developing countries, it changed little, from 39 to 37.