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The Determinance Of Induced Abortion Among Undergraduate Students
[A CASE STUDY OF UNIVERSITY OF CALABAR, CROSS RIVER STATE NIGERIA]
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1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
If an investigation or a study is
carried out on the category of people that indulge in abortion, the
result will definitely prove that it is adolescents and youths. The
minority will be older people (especially those who have passed the age
of child bearing.).
Several causes have been identified as inducing
abortion other than medical. The phenomenon in most countries is frowned
at. In Nigeria for example the abortion Act of 1967 as amended I n 1982
states the following;
1. If the continuance of the pregnancy would
involve risk to the life of the pregnant woman greater than if the
pregnancy was terminated, the pregnancy should be terminated.
2. If
the termination is necessary to prevent grave permanent impurity to the
physical or mental health of the pregnant woman, it should be
terminated.
3. If the pregnancy has not exceeded its 24th week and
the continuance of the pregnancy would involve risk greater than if the
pregnancy were terminated of injury to the physical of mental health of
the existing children of the family of the pregnant woman, it should be
terminated.
4. If there is substantial risk that if the child were
born it would suffer from much physical or mental abnormality as to be
serious by handicapped, the pregnancy should be terminated (George,
2004:7).
The above Act therefore permits under certain conditions,
the abortion of a pregnancy. Most women we the following conditions to
involve in abortion which has negative effect.
Mindful of the social
stigma of having unwanted pregnancies, many young girls who become
pregnant seek abortion as the only way to end unwanted pregnancies. This
however, has serious health risks, which sometime leads to death to
young girls. For instance, unsafe abortion results in various
complications such as haemorrhage, perforation of the uterus, secondary
sterify and even death. It is also obvious that unsafe abortion has a
devastating health impact as measured by deaths, illnesses, injuries and
the cases of emergency care (Expanding Access to safe Abortion, 1993).
Beside
the risks of unsafe abortion, there are serious health risks involved
child bearing as an adolescent or teenager. For instance, teenagers face
greater risk of pelvic bone immaturity, prolonged labour and other wise
difficult birth.
The fear of been sent out of School or dropping out
of school because of unwanted pregnancy makes undergraduate students
involve in abortion and in order to abort the baby, they go to quack
doctors because it is cheap or they take concoctions and this either
kills them or destroys their womb. Money in this case is also a problem.
George
(2004) has clearly observed that about 72.5% of those involved in
abortion are female students, 17.5% are unmarried women, while abort
4.3% are housewives. It is this rate that has become a problem.
Therefore,
this study seeks to look at extent of determinant of induced abortion
among undergraduate students, by looking at the reason why people
involve in abortion and why it is still being patronized by members of
the society.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]Abortion is a wide issue and the major concern in most of the discussion on abortion draws heavily from the fact that abortion constitutes severe danger to a woman’s health but at the same time when performed by medical specialist (i.e. abortion specialist) is safe for the woman. Abortion is accepted and also rejected by different societies and people indulge in abortion for a lot of reasons. some indulge in abortion so that they can complete their education, some because of the fear of h ... Continue reading---
