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Increasing access to safe abortion reduces maternal mortality and disability. However, currently, 45% of all abortions globally are unsafe and are a catastrophic public health problem, accounting for up to 13% of preventable maternal deaths worldwide and causing hundreds of thousands of survivors to live with preventable long-term complications.

Brooke Johns, an ER nurse at Southern Hills Hospital in Las Vegas, visits patients on her days off armed with a brush and an ear to listen.

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Access to Medical Abortion and Self-Managed Abortion: FIGO and Partners Share Key Insights with the United Nations Image On 18th March 2021, FIGO – in collaboration with the Centre for Reproductive Rights and Ipas – organised a discussion on ‘Access to medical abortion and self –managed abortion. Key insights from health workers and human rights advocates: on guaranteeing human rights’ with United Nations treaty monitoring committee members and Special Procedures mandate holders. ...

With his red hair, freckles and sunny disposition, everyone at home knew Hayden Harris as "Opie."  The kid from rural Tennessee was affectionate, thoughtful – "a good Christian boy," said Claire Hallissy, a family friend. He had an infectious smile and one passion in life: to join the U.S. Army. For the 20-year-old, that dream came to a mysterious end last weekend in the snowy woods of Sussex County, 1,000 miles from his hometown in Guys, Tennessee, and 300 more from Fort Drum, New York...