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Publisher
UNFPA
Publication date
Mar 2022
Author
UNFPA
Number of pages
160
State of World Population
Seeing the Unseen: The case for action in the neglected crisis of unintended pregnancy
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.