Almost One-Half of All Abortions Performed Worldwide Are Illegal

 The point is that people are going to have abortions worldwide whether they are legal in their own countries or not. This is also true here in the United States in Red States especially. They will either go to a Blue State to have an abortion or have an illegal abortion right there in their red state. Logically, most people will go to a blue state where it is safe to have an abortion rather than risking their lives in an illegal abortion in a red State. This is only logical if they can afford the abortion and travel to a blue state.

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Roe v. Wade—the landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court case establishing that most U.S. laws against abortion violate a constitutional right to privacy—will come under more scrutiny in coming months as a newly reconfigured Supreme Court hears arguments in an abortion rights case (Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England). Here is a look at some facts and trends regarding abortion in the United States and worldwide.

Almost One-Half of All Abortions Performed Worldwide Are Illegal

Many analysts argue that if Roe v. Wade were weakened or overturned and access to safe, affordable abortion services should shrink, the number of illegal abortions in the United States could increase dramatically. As a result, the number of maternal complications or deaths caused by unsafe abortions—those abortions performed by unskilled providers or in unsanitary settings—also could rise.¹

Women have abortions regardless of whether the procedure is legal in the country in which they reside. Evidence shows that laws that restrict abortion don’t guarantee low induced abortion rates: Nearly one-half of all abortions worldwide are performed in countries that allow abortions only in very limited circumstances.² While abortion rates are high in Eastern European countries such as Russia and Romania where abortion is legal, they are also relatively high in some Latin American countries, where the procedure is highly restricted (see Table 1).³

Table 1
Numbers and Rates of Induced Abortion for Selected Countries

Country & year	Best Estimate	Rate*	Ratio**	Status of abortion
Chile, 1990	160,000	50.0	35.3	Highly legally restricted
Brazil, 1991	1,444,000	40.8	29.8	Highly legally restricted
Colombia, 1989	288,000	36.3	26.0	Highly legally restricted
Nigeria, 1996	610,000	25.4	12.0	Highly legally restricted
Philippines, 2000	473,000	27.0	18.0	Highly legally restricted
Sweden, 1996	32,100	18.7	25.2	Legal
Finland, 1996	10,400	10.0	14.7	Legal
Germany,1996	130,900	7.6	14.1	Legal

*The rate is the number of abortions per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44.