Open AccessClandestine abortion in Port Harcourt: user\'s profile and motivation
Author(s) -
Best Ordinioha,
Golden Owhonda
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
nigerian journal of medicine/the nigerian journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2667-0526
pISSN - 1115-2613
DOI - 10.4314/njm.v17i1.37351
Subject(s) - port harcourt , abortion , port (circuit theory) , internet privacy , psychology , sociology , computer science , engineering , electrical engineering , pregnancy , socioeconomics , biology , genetics
Most of the information on abortion in Nigeria are based on information from women hospitalized for abortion complications. However a lot of abortions, especially those carried out by medical doctors do not cause enough complications to register in hospital statistics. This study is to explore the profile of women that obtain these relatively safe abortions, and to ascertain their reasons for opting for an abortion.