López, Elsa; Masautis, Alicia

Aborto en el Conurbano de Buenos Aires: opiniones, evidencias e interrogantes nbsp;- nbsp;[Abortion in the Conurbano of Buenos Aires: opinions, indications and inquiries]
López, Elsa; Masautis, Alicia - 1994 - Encuentro de investigadores sobre aborto inducido en América Latina y el Caribe. Determinantes del aborto y factores asociados, Santafe de Bogota (Colombia), Universidad Externado de Colombia, 16-30

Palabras claves : aborto inducido; actitudes; anticoncepción; anticoncepción de emergencia; aspectos psicológicos; características de la población; clases sociales; comportamiento reproductivo; comportamientos; comportamientos reproductivos; educación en planificación familiar; embarazo no deseado; encuesta sobre aborto; factores demográficos; factores económicos; factores psicológicos; factores socioeconómicos; fecundidad; ingresos; mujer; nivel de ingreso; planificación familiar; población; población urbana; uso de anticonceptivos; uso de anticonceptivos (determinantes)
País : America del Sur; America Del Sur; América latina; Argentina; Latina America; País en desarrollo; Sudamérica

Resumen : 561 lower class women in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area were interviewed in the Reproductive Health Survey between November 1992 and January 1993 concerning their desire for the most recent pregnancy and their feelings about induced abortion. Public sector family planning services in Argentina are inadequate. Poor women encounter greater difficulty in obtaining quality family planning services than do wealthier women, and also more frequently suffer the consequences of unsafe and illegal abortions. The survey data indicated that 10.4% of the 404 women who had children or were pregnant had not desired the last pregnancy at the time it occurred, and 49.0% did not desire the pregnancy at all. Only 41.6% who did not desire pregnancy were using any form of contraception. 138 of the 477 women ever in union reported a total of 221 abortions or stillbirths. 20% reported two pregnancy losses and 14% reported three or more. The total corresponded to 15.8% of the reported live births. The number of reported pregnancy losses increased with age and number of children and was higher for less educated women. Separated, widowed, and divorced women had 104.0 reported pregnancy losses per 100 women, but the number of cases was small. The 561 respondents were asked in which of nine different situations they would approve of abortion. Over 60% of women in all age, educational, marital status, and contraceptive usage groups except nonusers of contraception stated they would approve of abortion if the pregnancy endangered the mother's life or resulted from rape. Around 50% in most groups would approve abortion if pregnancy would damage the mother's health. Around 40% in most groups would approve abortion if the child would be malformed. Between 20 and 40% would approve abortion if the mother did not want the child or the family was not economically able to support the child. Women never using contraception were less likely to approve abortion for economic reasons. Under 20% of most groups approved of abortion if the mother were a minor, considered the family complete, or had no partner. Women never using contraception were more likely to approve of abortion if the mother considered the family complete. Almost 14% of the 561 respondents did not approve of abortion under any conditions and 3.4% approved in all cases. Only 25% approved of more than four conditions.

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