And yet, well over half of all women of reproductive age, nearly 40 million women, live in states considered hostile to abortion rights.

In the United States in 2017, nearly 1 in 5 pregnancies, excluding miscarriages, ended in abortion –an experience shared by almost 1 in 4 women. Installation view Laia Abril’s «On Abortion: and the Repercussions of Lack of Access», at The Museum of Sex, NY, 2020. And even in countries where abortion is legal, medical staff may risk their lives to perform the operation. On the other hand, anyone who helps a woman abort in a country where abortion is illegal can find themselves incarcerated. In violation of patient confidentiality codes, doctors and healthcare providers have been known report women seeking illegal abortions, even when abortion is medically necessary to save the patient’s life. Patients accused of tempting abortion have been detained in hospitals for weeks and even months. In Brazil, abortion is illegal under most circumstances and doctors are known to break their confidentiality code in order to denounce women who try it.

After treatment, her doctor called the police, who handcuffed her to the bed and forced her to confess. In February 2015, a 19-year-old woman took abortion pills in São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, then went to the hospital with abdominal pain. In El Salvador, even women suffering a miscarriage are being charged with homicide, facing prison sentences of up to 40 years. But all can be criminalized for trying to abort. For many, the pregnancy is not viable or poses a health risk. Today, safe and efficient means of abortion finally exist, yet women around the world continue to use ancient, illegal or risky home methods: every year, 47,000 women around the world die due to botched abortions.Īcross countries and religions, millions of women are blocked from abortion technologies by law and social coercion, and are forced to carry pregnancies to term against their will.

For centuries, people have searched for ways to delay or terminate pregnancy. Seven of those babies would survive childhood. Under “natural” circumstances, the average woman would get pregnant about 15 times in her life, resulting in ten births.

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