21.   It did not succeed, and for the first time unsafe abortion was recognized as a serious health risk.

22.   The group said half a million women die yearly as a result of pregnancy, nearly half of them from unsafe abortion.

23.   A breakthrough has been achieved at the UN population conference with international recognition of the problem of women dying from unsafe abortions, a key delegate said.

24.   The reference to unsafe abortion had irked conservative delegates who said safe abortion could not exist since the unborn child was always killed.

25.   Latin America and the Caribbean have the highest documented incidence of unsafe induced abortion among the regions of the developing world, the report said.

26.   Objections focused on references not only to unsafe abortion, but those seen as condoning sex outside of wedlock.