The new UN agency for women has released a report on the progress of women worldwide. Despite the optimism implied by "progress," spoiler alert — it's all pretty terrible. But there are charts!

Abortion is illegal in Brazil, with few exceptions, and it's unlikely to change. Still, "one in 5 Brazilian women of child-bearing age has terminated a pregnancy...200,000 women each year are hospitalized because of complications arising from unsafe abortions." [Time]

A new Guttmacher Institute report makes a strong case for contraception — and legal abortion — as a way to reduce the 70,000 deaths from unsafe abortions that occur every year. Unfortunately, the Catholic Church still isn't listening.

A new study says unsafe abortions cost the developing world $341 million a year, and if all the women who needed care actually got it, that number would double. Contraception and safe abortion are much cheaper. [Guttmacher Institute]