90 African women die every day from unsafe abortions

This is horrendous. A recent conference in nairobi highlighted the disturbing statistics and stories of women affected by unsafe abortions. Unbelievably, 90 African women die every day from unsafe abortions.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 4.2 million women in Africa have unsafe abortions every year–30,000 of them die. Africa accounts for almost half of the world’s deaths from unsafe abortions.
Researchers at the conference blame sexist and restrictive laws:

“A lot of people are not aware of the disaster unsafe abortion provokes,” said Eunice Brookman-Amissah, vice- president of Ipas, a reproductive health organisation. “Too many laws in Africa are too restrictive. They would only allow abortion to save the life of the mother – this is unethical and not enough.”
“By continuing to adhere to archaic colonial laws, by failing to implement international agreements, and by failing to act on growing evidence, we have allowed abortion to become the killing field for women in Africa,” said Ghanaian gynaecologist Fred Sai. “This is the worst case of medical apartheid that exists. There is no law forbidding men to decide on their own body.”

90 percent of the abortions in Africa are done using terrifying methods: “inserting sharp objects into the uterus, flushing the vagina with caustic liquids, throwing oneself from high places or repeated blows to the abdomen.”
Just horrible.