It was the spike in mortality rates that sparked the 1965 liberalization of legal abortion, which was no longer restricted to extreme cases and was to be carried out by public doctors free of charge, rather than by private practitioners.
[4] Throughout history, naturally occurring herbs and plants have been used to induce abortion and end unwanted pregnancies in Latin America.
Other common practices of inducing illegal abortions include the insertion of objects such as sticks and catheters into the uterus in order to rupture the amniotic sac to trigger termination.
Other Latin American countries, such as Chile, have observed decreased hospitalization rates related to unsafe abortion complications after the popularization of contraceptive use.
[2] In Cuba, low birth rates are commonly associated with the idea of modernity, and they have been made possible by the availability of safe abortion throughout the country.