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Worldwide, more than one-fifth of all pregnancies—nearly 46 million—are terminated each year. An estimated 36 million procedures take place in the developing world and 10 million in the developed world. Twenty million of these abortions are carried out under illegal and often unsafe conditions. Abortion is with few exceptions an outcome of unwanted pregnancy. Women who want to terminate a pregnancy tend to ignore the legal status of abortion and are often willing to risk unsafe abortions. In the poorest countries, however, women face a much higher risk of death from unsafe abortion. In Africa, one in every 150 abortions leads to death compared to one in every 85,000 procedures in the developed world. This high risk means that nearly 70,000 women die each year—one every seven minutes—from botched abortions. Hundreds of thousands more end up with chronic health problems.