Experts, advocates urge action on ‘unseen crisis of unintended pregnancy'

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File photo shows young mothers with their children.

The STAR / File

 

MANILA, Philippines — Experts and advocates from governments and civil societies sounded the alarm on what they said was an “unseen crisis” on a global scale with nearly half of all pregnancies—about 121 million—unintended.

 

This was disclosed in the 2022 State of World Population Report by the United Nations Population Fund which defined “unintended pregnancy” as one “that occurs to a woman who was not planning to have any [more] children, or that was mistimed, in that it occurred earlier than desired.”

 

“An unintended pregnancy may be simply overlooked as a personal crisis. What we would like to emphasize is that the issue entails staggering national, and even global, costs,” pointed out Population and Development Undersecretary Juan Antonio Perez III, executive director of the Commission on Population and Development.

 

Full Story: https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2022/06/09/2187195/experts-advocates-urge-action-unseen-crisis-unintended-pregnancy

 

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