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Figures from the Brazilian Ministry of Health indicate that more than 200,000 women go to hospitals every year with complications following abortions. Many of these women die — punctured wombs and infections are among the common causes of death — and many others don't seek help at all, fearing arrest. Brazil's Federal Council of Medicine says abortions are the fifth-highest cause of maternal mortality.
As with many restrictive laws, the degree of risk falls along class and race lines. Women who cannot afford to get an abortion, whether abroad or domestically, are disproportionately poor and black. Members of those groups also have limited access to contraception and sex education. Ipas notes that low-income Afro-Brazilian women die from abortions at three times the rate of white women.
full: https://news.vice.com/article/as-women-die-from-illegal-abortions-in-brazil-presidential-candidates-remain-silent
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