International Planned Parenthood Federation

This fact sheet, produced by Planned Parenthood, presents statistics about unsafe abortions around the world and succinctly discusses such issues as why women choose abortion, factors that determine the safety of abortion, complications resulting from unsafe abortions, and how to prevent unsafe abortions. [Descriptors: Reproductive Rights - Abortion, International]

The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) Charter on Sexual and Reproductive Rights provides an ethical framework within which IPPF carries out its mission. It is an integral activity of Vision 2000, IPPF's Strategic Plan, which documents the most important issues, goals and programmatic challenges that the Federation and individual family planning associations must address in the coming years.