Unintended pregnancy

Women's bodies have become political "battlegrounds", putting at risk 30 years of progress on sexual and reproductive health for women and girls, the U.N. warned Wednesday.

The woman told the helpline that she had been raped, but didn't want that information to come to light and put an additional burden on her husband who was still fighting in Ukraine.

Professor Ayşe Akın received a United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) award last week in Nairobi, Kenya at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICDP25) for her contribution to the health of women at the global and national levels since 1994, when the first ICDP took place in Cairo, which she had also attended.

­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­The 7th Panhellenic Conference of Family Planning, organized by the Greek Society for Family Planning, Birth Control and Reproductive Health, presented abortions statistics that showed that pregnancy terminations  in Greece have shot up 50% since the start of the economic crisis while miscarriages have doubled.

The financial crisis has led to a reduction in abortions in Greece but it is still remains in the first ranks among European countries according to a British study conducted by the Obstretic-Gynecological Clinics of the University of London. There are 80,000 abortions per year, half of which involve underage girls.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has expressed his opposition both to birth control, which he declared last week as “treason,” and abortions, an act that he has famously branded a “massacre,” in a similar vein to the killings of 34 villagers in Roboski three years ago.