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The Determinance Of Induced Abortion Among Undergraduates Students In Nigeria
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However, other factors (economic social, educational, and family size)
have equally become prominent in respect to induced abortion or
pregnancy termination. Both male and female students are supposed to be
sexually responsible since a lot of student’s in today’s society are
already sexually active, but females always carry the bulk of the
responsibility as they are the ones who would be greatly affected by any
mistake (Alimson, 2001). For instance, a female student who forget to
take necessary pregnancy precautions and therefore gets pregnant may
resort to an abortion for the following reasons.
To complete her education,
To avoid becoming a mother prematurely, as well as the responsibility attached to it,
To avoid being negatively labeled by the society has been “looseâ€
Fear of having a child out of wedlock.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
In
a study that was 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 in 1982 states the following;
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.
If the termination is necessary to prevent grave
permanent impurity to the physical or mental health of the pregnant
woman, it should be terminated.
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.
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).
The above Act therefore permits under
certain conditions, the abortion of a pregnancy. Most women with the
following conditions are to involve in abortion carried out legally by
medical experts.
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