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Moreover, in the same region, more than 60% of girls are married well before the legal age, making pregnancies among anemic and malnourished teenagers a common occurrence.
Moreover, the UN Foundation reports that 222 million women still cannot access the most basic information, products, and services that would enable them to decide how many children to have and to time their pregnancies in ways that preserve their health, enable them to pursue an education, and improve their lives.
“We will strive to ensure that even pregnancies that are very difficult, when the child is doomed to die or is seriously deformed, are brought to term so that the child can be baptized, buried, and given a name,” he announced on October 13.
These include 15-19-year-old women in poor countries, who currently have the least access to contraception, and women who have multiple pregnancies in quick succession, by allowing them to space out their pregnancies.
By reducing the rate of unwanted pregnancies, family planning also decreases the number of deaths from unsafe abortions.
Reducing high-risk pregnancies, curbing unwanted pregnancies, and spacing out births have been shown to decrease newborn and child death rates.
When public programs are not available, the ability to plan for a family is weakened and the rate of unintended pregnancies increases.Investment in human capital, when accompanied by sound economic policies and robust labor markets, produces significant gains for developing economies.
When public programs are not available, the ability to plan for a family is weakened and the rate of unintended pregnancies increases.
We are committed to ensuring that all pregnancies are safe and wanted, and that all women and girls are empowered not just to make their own choices about their own families and bodies, but also to contribute more to poverty reduction and economic development.
In Lao PDR, the UNFPA has helped the Ministry of Health train midwives and village health volunteers to provide basic sexual and reproductive care, providing the information that women need to avoid unwanted pregnancies.
Of course, women also need access to family-planning services, to help them avoid unwanted pregnancies and reduce the number of unsafe abortions.
Moreover, people living in the shadow of armed groups with genocidal goals have a higher risk of being targeted by sexualized violence – such as forced pregnancies.
If he is for a directly elected Mayor of London, or against teenage pregnancies, or for the privatization of railways, this must be the “third way.”
In such a poor society, inadequate education leaves people without the knowledge they need to improve their lot, such as by limiting pregnancies or taking advantage of opportunities to boost economic productivity.
Frequent pregnancies, especially in countries without universal modern health care, are associated with high maternal mortality.
And yet most women, needing the income, continue working and hide their pregnancies as long as possible, out of fear that supervisors will fire them when they find out.
Each year, 25% of all pregnancies – about 56 million – are terminated.
Afterward, many of the women find themselves utterly alone as they suffer the physical and psychological effects of trauma and cope with destitution, unwanted pregnancies and children, HIV/AIDS, and ostracism by their loved ones who shun them as “diseased” or “tainted.”
Earlier research based on the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone found an increase in out-of-wedlock pregnancies, and showed that when schools reopened, boys returned to classes, but many girls did not.
This type of counseling not only helps students resist peer pressure to engage in or accept violence, but also leads to a reduction in early pregnancies.
In the case of low-risk pregnancies, national governments should support this decision.
After years working in reproductive health, I can say authoritatively that women do not terminate pregnancies on a whim.
How can a government that fails to ensure CSE or invest adequately in family planning penalize its women for unwanted pregnancies?
Those who do nothing to prevent unwanted pregnancies – and everything to punish the women affected by them – cannot claim the moral high ground.
Where possible, COVID-19 testing and treatment centers should integrate the provision of essential health services, including screening for conditions such as high-risk pregnancies and chronic diseases.
Lack of access to well-equipped health facilities – and, thus, family-planning tools – heightens the risk of unintended pregnancies in dangerous conditions, potentially leading to life-threatening obstetric complications.
Based on South Africa’s high rate of sexual assault – and my firsthand experience as a doctor working in the country – it is fair to assume that a non-negligible share of these unwanted and unsupportable pregnancies began in violence.
The result would be thousands of unintended pregnancies in each of the 14 countries, and a higher risk of adverse health outcomes for millions of women and newborns.
Millions of women self-terminate pregnancies every year, whether using a combination of mifepristone and misoprostol, or misoprostol alone.
Attended home births for low-risk pregnancies, guaranteed presence of midwives, dedicated birthing facilities linked to tertiary care, and home visits for antenatal care help ensure safer deliveries for mothers and providers alike.
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