From: Abortion attitudes, training, and experience among medical students in Jamaica, West Indies
N(%) | Preclinical years | Clinical years | P | |
---|---|---|---|---|
In Jamaica abortion in is? | < 0.001 | |||
Always penalized | 457 (32.57) | 351 (39.39) | 106 (20.70) | |
Legal for the mental or physical health of the womana | 381 (27.16) | 168 (18.86) | 213 (41.60) | |
Legal if the pregnancy is the result of a rape | 92 (6.56) | 54 (6.06) | 38 (7.422 | |
Legal for fetal anomalies | 112 (7.98) | 60 (6.73) | 52 (10.16) | |
Legal when the mother has a disease that can worsen with pregnancy a | 180 (12.83) | 93 (10.44) | 87 (16.99) | |
Legal under certain circumstances a | 406 (28.94) | 232 (26.04) | 174 (33.98) | |
Legal in all cases | 3 (0.21) | 2 (0.22) | 1 (0.20) | |
I do not know | 248 (17.68) | 175 (19.64) | 73 (14.26) |