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		</div><p>The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has criticised the US Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v Wade, calling the decision to no longer recognise a constitutional right to abortion “a setback” that would ultimately cost lives.</p>
<p>WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a media briefing that decades of scientific data proved that access to safe and legal abortion saved lives.</p>
<p>“The evidence is irrefutable,” Dr Tedros said.</p>
<p>“Restricting (abortion) drives women and girls toward unsafe abortions resulting in complications, even death.”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">";Over the last 40 years, the global trend is toward women having greater access to safe abortion and while last week was a set-back, it is more important than ever to come together to protect women’s right to safe <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/abortion?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#abortion</a> &#8211; everywhere";-<a href="https://twitter.com/DrTedros?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DrTedros</a></p>
<p>&mdash; World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) <a href="https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1542152591035060224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 29, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>He said safe abortion should be understood as health care and warned that limiting its access would disproportionately hit women from the poorest and most marginalised communities.</p>
<p>“We hadn’t really expected this from the US,” Dr Tedros said, adding that he was concerned the Supreme Court’s decision was a move “backwards”.</p>
<p>In recent years, the US had supported numerous maternal healthcare programmes in developing countries, including access to reproductive healthcare.</p>
<p>“We had really hoped the US would lead on this issue,” Dr Tedros said.</p>
<p>WHO’s chief scientist, Dr Soumya Swaminathan, said the UN health agency’s position on abortion was based on decades of data from numerous countries.</p>
<p>“I know from my own experience, working in India, that having access to safe abortion is a life-saving measure,” Dr Swaminathan said.</p>
<p>She said denying a woman access to abortion was “like denying someone a life-saving drug”.</p>
<p>She said bans on abortion would do little to reduce the number of procedures, while people who underwent unsafe abortions were at risk of developing fatal blood infections.</p>
<p>“What these bans do … is it drives women into the hands of people who are there to exploit the situation, performing unsafe abortion and very often resulting in a huge amount of damage to their health and sometimes death,” Dr Swaminathan said.</p>
<p>In recent years, the trend among countries had been to increase access to abortion, including regions where there was staunch opposition, including Latin America, she said.</p>
<p>“It’s unfortunate to see some countries going backward,” Dr Swaminathan said, citing the US decision.</p>
<p>WHO chief Dr Tedros said he feared many other countries might not understand the implications of the US Supreme Court ruling and could take similar measures to restrict abortions.</p>
<p>“The global impact is also a concern,” he said.</p>
<p>“This is about the life of mother,” he added.</p>
<p>“If safe abortion is illegal, then women will definitely resort to unsafe ways of doing it. And that means it could cost them their lives.”</p>
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