| Over Half of Mexico's Unintended Pregnancies End in Abortion LatinaLista | |
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| Read the full report: Unintended Pregnancy and Induced Abortion in Mexico: Causes and Consequences (PDF) |
Mexico ranks as the 11th most populous country in the world, with 122,730.392 people. It’s a country where women outnumber men (50.7% vs. 29.3% of the population, respectively), 85 percent of the people are Roman Catholic and it holds the distinction of having the highest population of any Spanish-speaking country.
It’s also a country where 55 percent of all pregnancies are unintended and 54 percent of those pregnancies end in abortion.
A new study by El Colegio de México and the Guttmacher Institute, Unintended Pregnancy and Induced Abortion in Mexico: Causes and Consequences, reports that one million abortions take place in Mexico each year.
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