Using public health approach to address unsafe abortion

Oct 15 2012

"The global maternal mortality has dropped dramatically during the last decade," but "too many women continue to die from pregnancy-related causes," Sharon Camp, president and CEO of the Guttmacher Institute, writes in the BMJ Group Blogs. "In part, this is because unsafe abortion -- one of the leading preventable causes of maternal death -- is a public health crisis that is going largely ignored," she continues, adding, "It is time for a public health approach to prevent unsafe abortion and the harm it causes individuals, families and society as a whole" (10/11).