UN Says Half of Global Pregnancies are Unintended
According to a report by the United Nations Reproductive Health Agency, that was released on Wednesday, Nearly half of all pregnancies worldwide are unintended.
Anthony Mutisya 
The international health agency has further warned that the war in Ukraine could further exacerbate what it called a "human rights crisis".
“Out of 121 million unintended pregnancies every year -- 331,000 a day -- more than 60 percent end in abortion, almost half of them unsafe,” the United Nations Population Fund said in a new report.
UNFPA said the report was not about "unwanted babies or happy accidents", but how a combination of gender inequality, poverty, sexual violence, and lack of access to contraception and abortion robbed women of "the most life-altering reproductive choice -- whether or not to become pregnant.”
In the report UNFPA has indicated that the war in Ukraine and other conflicts are expected to drive the "staggering" number of unintended pregnancies even higher as sexual violence increases and contraception access is disrupted.
“We have heard stories from pregnant women who knew that nutritionally they weren't going to be able to support their pregnancy in Ukraine,” UNFPA executive director Natalia Kanem said.
“There are also predators and traffickers and examples of people who are seeing the tragedy of war as an opportunity to target women and girls.” she added
Also, according to UNFPA, the covid-19 pandemic has also affected the contraceptive supplies, leading to up to 1.4 million unintended pregnancies in the first year of the pandemic alone.
