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Nearly half of all pregnancies are unintended—a global crisis, says new UNFPA report

30 March 2022

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State of World Population

Seeing the Unseen: The case for action in the neglected crisis of unintended pregnancy

Number of pages: 160

Publication date: 30 Mar 2022

Author: UNFPA

Publisher: UNFPA

An estimated 121 million pregnancies per year take place in the bodies of women who did not choose pregnancy or motherhood, who were not planning to have a child at that time, with that partner, in those circumstances. Nothing is more fundamental to bodily autonomy than the ability to decide whether or not to become pregnant. Yet for too many, the most life-altering reproductive choice is no choice at all.

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