The impact of abortion on the reproductive health of women
- Country : Ghana
- Subject : Mathematics Education
Abstract
Women have resorted to abortions since times immemorial despite social norms and legal restriction that barred it. Today, restrictive abortion laws and inaccessibility to safe and affordable abortion services lead many girls and women of reproductive age. Specifically, the study sought to examine the background characteristics of the respondents who are nurses, senior nurses, doctors and midwives who have receive patients on abortion cases, the cause of the pregnancy, what actually influence them to abort the pregnancy, the effects it has on their health and the future pregnancy of the women, the health care they received, as well as the long term consequences and finally measures what they think can help curb the problem. Twenty-one (21) medical personnel were used for the study. Pathways to causes of abortions shows reasons for the abortion and this ranged from incest, rape, ectopic, sex preference, advice from doctors because of complications, peer influence, pressure from parents, husbands or partners did not want a pregnancy at the time of pregnancy or being too young to have a baby, the cost of having to raise a child, having to drop out of school to have the baby as well as to further education and pregnancy resulting from an extra-marital affair in husband‘s absence were other reasons that accounted for the termination of pregnancies. However, difficulty in getting pregnant again and possible complications in subsequent pregnancies were some of the long term consequences cited by some respondents. Respondents reported that high proportion of patients received treatments such as surgery, Antibiotics, counseling, Evacuation of the Uterus at the health facility for post abortion care. And some had long term consequences such as excessive bleeding, abdominal pain, menstrual pain, Barrenness and finally patients can loss their life as a result of their deviant act. This is an important finding in and of itself, because it throws more light on the actual causes of abortions and the impact it has on the reproductive health of women.
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