Government clinics in these countries were “never able to pick up the slack nor regain the trust of women turned away by the NGOs”, according the study.

Around 22 million unsafe abortions are performed every year, but there is scant evidence that restrictive abortion laws lead to lower abortion rates. Indeed, different research by the Guttmacher Institute shows that the abortion rate is actually slightly higher in countries where the procedure is prohibited or only allowed to save a woman’s life.

JK Rowling just dismantled Donald Trump’s senseless anti-abortion rule