ArticleCulture, health & sexuality2017
Abortion attitudes among South Africans: findings from the 2013 social attitudes survey.
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- Identifying Profiles of Support for Legal Abortion Services in Zambia: A Latent Class Analysis.Studies in family planning · 2024Article
- Attitudes towards induced abortion among gynecologists in Kurdistan region of Iraq.BMC women's health · 2023Article
- Stigma towards women requesting abortion and association with health facility staff facilitation and obstruction of abortion care in South Africa.Frontiers in global women's health · 2023Article
- Perspectives about social support among unmarried pregnant university students in South Africa.PloS one · 2023Article
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- "Sexual and reproductive health matters · 2022Article
- Intersection of Race and Gender in Self-Reports of Violent Experiences and Polyvictimization by Young Girls in Brazil.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2022Article
- Design and study of psychometric properties of the Community Attitude to Abortion Scale (CAAS) with the Chilean population: Autonomy and Stigma.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Navigating abortion law dilemmas: experiences and attitudes among Ethiopian health care professionals.BMC medical ethics · 2021Article
- Barriers in Accessing Care for Consequence of Unsafe Abortion by Black Women: Evidence of Institutional Racism in Brazil.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2021Article
- South African abortion attitudes from 2007-2016: the roles of religiosity and attitudes toward sexuality and gender equality.Women & health · 2020Article
- Exploring adolescents and young people's candidacy for utilising health services in a rural district, South Africa.BMC health services research · 2019Article
- Differences in abortion attitudes by policy context and between men and women in the World Values Survey.Women & healthArticle
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Abstract
Abortion is legal in South Africa, but over half of abortions remain unsafe there. Evidence suggests women who are (Black) African, of lower socioeconomic status, living with HIV, or residents of Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, or Limpopo provinces are disproportionately vulnerable to morbidity or mortality from unsafe abortion. Negative attitudes toward abortion have been documented in purposively sampled studies, yet it remains unclear what attitudes exist nationally or whether they differ across sociodemographic groups, with implications for inequities in service accessibility and health. In the current study, we analysed nationally representative data from 2013 to estimate the prevalence of negative abortion attitudes in South Africa and to identify racial, socioeconomic and geographic differences. More respondents felt abortion was 'always wrong' in the case of family poverty (75.4%) as compared to foetal anomaly (55%), and over half of respondents felt abortion was 'always wrong' in both cases (52.5%). Using binary logistic regression models, we found significantly higher odds of negative abortion attitudes among non-Xhosa African and Coloured respondents (compared to Xhosa respondents), those with primary education or less, and residents of Gauteng and Limpopo (compared to Western Cape). We contextualise and discuss these findings using a human rights-based approach to health.
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