Yahoo! News - Unsafe Abortions Kill 70,000 Women a Year -- Report
LONDON (Reuters) - Nearly 70,000 women, almost half of them in Asia, die from unsafe abortions each year despite government pledges made a decade ago to improve human rights and reproductive health, researchers said Wednesday.

According to the report, Asia accounts for 55 percent of the world's unsafe abortions, the highest of any region, with about 10.5 million in 2000, followed by Africa with 4.2 million unsafe abortions and Latin America and the Caribbean with 3.7 million.

In Chile and El Salvador, abortion is not legal on any grounds. Some countries allow it for reasons such as ensuring the mother's life and in cases of rape or incest.

"But the fact is, even where it is legal under limited grounds it is not available and it is not safe," Maguire said.

A little preview of what could happen in America if the Republicans get their way.