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From: Reductions in abortion-related mortality following policy reform: evidence from Romania, South Africa and Bangladesh

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Abortion-Related Maternal Deaths per 1,000 abortions in South Africa, 1994- 2007: This figure describes the change in abortion-related maternal deaths following the change in South Africa's abortion law in 1996 using a rate of deaths per 1,000 abortions. The data for this figure were obtained as follows: 1994 data from [38]; 1997 data from [83]; 1999-2001 data from [84, 85]; 2002-2004 data from [52] 2005-2007 data from [57] The abortion statistics used for the denominator were retrieved from Health Systems Trust http://www.hst.org.za/healthstats/47/data. It should be noted that some of the abortion statistics for 2005-2007 are incomplete.

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