Open AccessAttitudes of medical students to induced abortion
Author(s) -
G.A.B. Buga
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
east african medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.102
H-Index - 40
ISSN - 0012-835X
DOI - 10.4314/eamj.v79i5.8865
Subject(s) - abortion , medicine , legislation , family medicine , medical abortion , unsafe abortion , abortion law , pregnancy , family planning , cross sectional study , demography , obstetrics , population , environmental health , research methodology , misoprostol , law , genetics , pathology , sociology , political science , biology
Unsafe abortion causes 13% of maternal deaths worldwide. Safe abortion can only be offered under conditions where legislation has been passed for legal termination of unwanted pregnancy. Where such legislation exists, accessibility of safe abortion depends on the attitudes of doctors and other healthcare workers to induced abortion. Medical students as future doctors may have attitudes to abortion that will affect the provision of safe abortion. Little is known about the attitudes of South African medical students to abortion.