Original: Abortions are unsafe when performed by persons without the proper skills or outside of a medically safe environment . An estimated 42 million abortions are performed annually with 20 million of those abortions done unsafely around the world .
Simplified: Such abortions are usually called unsafe abortions , back-alley abortions or DIY abortions , mainly because the risk to the health of the mother is much higher than with abortions carried out by skilled doctors .