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An Analysis Of The Increase In Mortality Rate As A Result Of Abortion Among Young Women Of Childbearing Age
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On the other hand, this young girl may decide to procure
an abortion herself or may find herself in the hands of quacks such as
half-baked nurses, medical school dropouts, traditional medicine
practitioners and other paramedical quacks which could lead to loss of
life or sustenance of severe complications which may affect the womb. In
this situation, who is to blame for her death? Is it her teachers,
parents, peers, the young girl herself, the abortionist or the society
at large? The plight of these young adolescents at this period of life
is pitiable because they probably have been exposed to sexual
intercourse at a very young age. They also may have indulged in sex
without being aware of the consequences of their action which in fact
speaks of ignorance and innocence.
Again, these young girls may have
been lured into sex by older members of the community seeking pleasure.
These individuals may deceive these young girls to engage in premarital
sex. In whatever way abortion is performed on these young girls, whoever
the abortionist is and whatever reasons these girls have to procure
abortion, the fact still remains that these young girls are dying daily
in their thousands and nothing has been done to remedy the situation.
1.2 Statement of the problem
Abortion
has claimed the lives of hundreds of women and rendered many of them
infertile in Big Qua Community due to its attendant effects and
complications which include menstrual dsisorders rupture of the uterus
or womb, recurrent abortion or miscarriages, septicemia, splitting of
the cervix, adjacent organ damage, perforation of the uterus and even
death. It is against this background that government has made provision
for free antenatal care/services and treatment of the under fives so
that women who are living with low income standard can afford medical
services and retain their pregnancy to term.
In spite of all these
services, it has been observed that women age 15 -49 years in Big Qua
Community still indulge in abortion. From observation and data gathered,
abortion in totality leads to perforation of the uterus, formation of
adhesion thus resulting to menstrual disorders such as amenorrhea which
eventually metamorphose to infertility or barrenness.
Consequently,
it becomes pertinent to ask; could the refusal of women aged 15-49 years
in Big Qua Community to stop abortion be due to lack of knowledge on
the dangers associated with abortion or ignorance of the consequences in
terms of infertility? An attempt to answer this question prompted the
researcher to examine abortion and the health of females (15-49 years)
in Big Qua Community, Calabar Municipal Area of Cross River State.
1.3 Objectives of the study
The
major objective of this study is to analyze the increase in mortality
rate as a result of abortion among young women of childbearing age
(15-45yeras) in Big Qua Community, Calabar Municipal Area of Cross River
State.
The specific objective:
To determine the effect of threatened abortion on the health of females (15-49 years).
To find out the extent to which criminal abortion affect the health of females (15-49 years).
To evaluate the effect of septic abortion on the health of female(15-49 years)
1.4 Research questions
To what extent does threatened abortion affect the health of females (15-49 years)?
How will criminal abortion affect the health of females (15-49 years)?
How will septic abortion affect the health of females (15-49 years)?
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