Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by the removal or expulsion of an embryo or foetus from the uterus, which results in or causes the death of the embryo or foetus.
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Abortion can occur spontaneously as a result of pregnancy complications or it can be induced.
According to the World Health Organization, over 73 million induced abortions occur worldwide each year, accounting for 61% of all unwanted pregnancies and 29% of all conceptions in general.
More than 1.2 million abortions were conducted worldwide in the first ten days of 2021, according to WHO.
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The abortion rate in the United States is 20.8 abortions per 1,000 women. The most recent year for which the CDC provided a national total for abortions was 2019.
According to the agency, there were 629,898 abortions in the United States that year, a little increase from 619,591 in 2018.
The most recent known numbers from Guttmacher are from 2020, when there were 930,160 abortions nationally, up from 916,460 in 2019.
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