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【正文】 s, has little effect on the number of pregnancies terminated. Rather, it drives women to seek illegal, often unsafe backstreet abortions leading to an estimated 67,000 deaths a year. A further 5m women require hospital treatment as a result of botched procedures. In Africa and Asia, where abortion is generally either illegal or restricted, the abortion rate in 2020 (the latest year for which figures are available) was 29 per 1,000 women aged 1544. This is almost identical to the rate in Europe—28—where legal abortions are widely available. Latin America, which has some of the world39。s highest abortion rate, with more terminations than live births. The risk of dying in a botched abortion is only part of a broader problem of maternal health in poor countries. Of all the inequalities of development, this is arguably the worst. According to a report published this week by Population Action International, a Washingtonbased lobby group, women in poor countries are 250 times more likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth than women in rich ones. （ 2） Of the 535,000 women who died in childbirth or from pregnancyrelated plications in 2020, 99% were in developing countries, according to another report by a group of UN agencies, including WHO, also out this week. Africa accounted for more than half such the UN report noted, countries with the highest levels of maternal mortality have made the least progress towards reducing it. A woman in Africa has a one in 16 chance of dying in pregnancy or childbirth, pared with one in 3,800 for a woman in the rich world. 1. The word “botched” (Line 5, Paragraph 1) most probably means_____. [A] awkward [B] wrong [C] backward [D] bungled fact that the abortion rate in Africa and Asia in 2020 is almost identical to that in Europe implies that_____. [A] the abortion rate has nothing to do with a country’s national wealth. [B] the abortion rate has nothing to do with a country’s restricting measures on abortion. [C] the abortion rate cannot be lowered through the legal measures. [D] the abortion rate cannot be lowered by the implement of tightened abortion laws. 3. The conclusion of the study can be proved by the following proofs offered in t
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