Highlights of the respondents' perspectives are summarized below. 6 Abortion is a well-known problem, although most abortions are done secretly. It's often only when someone dies or gets sick that the problem becomes known. Infanticide is sometimes associated with abortion. Comments on specific infanticide incidents suggest these are publicized in the media and discussed throughout the community.
Young girls are at highest risk of unwanted pregnancy and unsafe abortion.
However, women of all ages induce abortions. Older women who induce abortions are often married women who have become pregnant from extramarital affairs. Mostly it's young girls who abort, but both young and old are affected. Causes of unwanted pregnancy are many. They include economic hardship that leads to sex for income, poor parenting, ignorance about sex and RH, early physical maturity and experimentation with sex, promiscuity, unprotected sex, peer pressure to have sex, shift from traditional to modern societal values, inaccessibility of contraceptives, women's lack of control of their sexuality, inadequate family accommodation, boys and men cheating girls into having sex by promising marriage, and lack of respect between a man and woman.