Attitude of Students towards Abortion
the Role of Sociodemographic Factors
Keywords:
artificial pregnancy termination, religion, society, studentsAbstract
In Slovenia, permission for performing abortion is limited to the tenth week of pregnancy on the initiative of women, after that time, abortion can only be authorized by a special commission. The aim of this study was to determine the attitude of students
towards abortion. The study involved 317 students of the Faculty of Health Sciences Ljubljana. The statistical program SPSS 17.0 for Windows was used to calculate frequencies and the contingency coefficient. The results show that religious students do not approve of abortion (p = ,003), to them the attitude of environment towards abortion is also important (p = ,005) and they do not approve of abortion in the second trimester of pregnancy (p = ,003). The religious students also typically agree that an abortion can have psychological and physical effects on women‘s health (p = ,046), however, the atheist students are definitely more in favor of the abortion. Based on the data obtained it can be concluded that religion has an important influence on the individual‘s attitude towards abortion.
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