\'On Abortion\' is the first part of Laia Abril\'s new long-term project, A History of Misogyny.
But all can be criminalized for trying to abort..
They are forced to carry pregnancies to term against their will, even minors and rape victims, and for many the pregnancy is not viable or poses a health risk.
Across many countries and religions, millions of women are still denied Access to abortion by the law or by social coercion.
Today, safe and efficient means of abortion finally exist, yet women around the world continue to use ancient, illegal or risky home methods: Every year, 47,000 women die from botched abortions.
For centuries, people have searched for ways to delay or terminate pregnancy.
Seven of those babies would survive childhood.
Under \'natural\' circumstances, the average woman would get pregnant about 15 times in her life, resulting in ten births.
She draws on the past to highlight the long, continuing erosion of women\'s reproductive rights through to the present-day, weaving together questions of ethics and morality, to reveal a staggering series of social triggers, stigmas, and taboos around abortion that have been largely invisible until now.
Abril documents and conceptualizes the dangers and damage caused by women\'s Lack of legal, safe and free Access to abortion. \'On Abortion\' is the first part of Laia Abril\'s new long-term project, A History of Misogyny
