Deadly toll of botched abortions

Unsafe abortions in the developing world kill 68,000 women a year, research suggests.

They also lead to at least five million other people going to hospital for infection and other complications, the Lancet study estimates.

A team from New York's Guttmacher Institute made their estimate after analysing data from 13 countries.

They suggested around 19 million unsafe abortions take place around the world each year. the rest