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Mercy Procedure or a Nightmare? Attitude towards Pregnancy Termination among Polish University Students
Worldwide, there are about 121 million unintended pregnancies per year. The aim of the study was to assess the attitudes in different groups of students from 40 Polish universities towards pregnancy termination. In total, 9686 university students (20.1% male and 79.9% female) took part in our resear...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8751103/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35010470 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19010213 |
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author | Stokłosa, Maciej Stokłosa, Iga Porwolik, Mateusz Bugajski, Maciej Więckiewicz, Gniewko Męcik-Kronenberg, Tomasz Piegza, Magdalena Pudlo, Robert Gorczyca, Piotr |
author_facet | Stokłosa, Maciej Stokłosa, Iga Porwolik, Mateusz Bugajski, Maciej Więckiewicz, Gniewko Męcik-Kronenberg, Tomasz Piegza, Magdalena Pudlo, Robert Gorczyca, Piotr |
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description | Worldwide, there are about 121 million unintended pregnancies per year. The aim of the study was to assess the attitudes in different groups of students from 40 Polish universities towards pregnancy termination. In total, 9686 university students (20.1% male and 79.9% female) took part in our research. Questions about attitudes towards abortion in all possible circumstances were involved in the survey, which also included a socio-demographic questionnaire. Overall, 94.5% of women and 90.7% of men consider that abortion should be legal in the situation of a threat to the mother’s life, while only 52% of women and 38.7% of men accept it in the case of a hard financial situation for the mother. Most students stand for abortion in the situation of a threat to the mother’s life, in the case of rape, or in the case of a mortal fetus defect. Less than half of the students interviewed consider that abortion should be legal in the case of a hard financial situation for the mother or on the mother’s demand. People who declare a religious affiliation more often disagree with abortion, even in the hardest cases such as a danger to the mother’s life or a mortal fetus defect. The factor that influences the strongest on attitudes towards abortion is being an active Roman Catholic. The majority of students have a pro-choice attitude in respect of pregnancy termination. |
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spelling | pubmed-87511032022-01-12 Mercy Procedure or a Nightmare? Attitude towards Pregnancy Termination among Polish University Students Stokłosa, Maciej Stokłosa, Iga Porwolik, Mateusz Bugajski, Maciej Więckiewicz, Gniewko Męcik-Kronenberg, Tomasz Piegza, Magdalena Pudlo, Robert Gorczyca, Piotr Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Worldwide, there are about 121 million unintended pregnancies per year. The aim of the study was to assess the attitudes in different groups of students from 40 Polish universities towards pregnancy termination. In total, 9686 university students (20.1% male and 79.9% female) took part in our research. Questions about attitudes towards abortion in all possible circumstances were involved in the survey, which also included a socio-demographic questionnaire. Overall, 94.5% of women and 90.7% of men consider that abortion should be legal in the situation of a threat to the mother’s life, while only 52% of women and 38.7% of men accept it in the case of a hard financial situation for the mother. Most students stand for abortion in the situation of a threat to the mother’s life, in the case of rape, or in the case of a mortal fetus defect. Less than half of the students interviewed consider that abortion should be legal in the case of a hard financial situation for the mother or on the mother’s demand. People who declare a religious affiliation more often disagree with abortion, even in the hardest cases such as a danger to the mother’s life or a mortal fetus defect. The factor that influences the strongest on attitudes towards abortion is being an active Roman Catholic. The majority of students have a pro-choice attitude in respect of pregnancy termination. MDPI 2021-12-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8751103/ /pubmed/35010470 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19010213 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Stokłosa, Maciej Stokłosa, Iga Porwolik, Mateusz Bugajski, Maciej Więckiewicz, Gniewko Męcik-Kronenberg, Tomasz Piegza, Magdalena Pudlo, Robert Gorczyca, Piotr Mercy Procedure or a Nightmare? Attitude towards Pregnancy Termination among Polish University Students |
title | Mercy Procedure or a Nightmare? Attitude towards Pregnancy Termination among Polish University Students |
title_full | Mercy Procedure or a Nightmare? Attitude towards Pregnancy Termination among Polish University Students |
title_fullStr | Mercy Procedure or a Nightmare? Attitude towards Pregnancy Termination among Polish University Students |
title_full_unstemmed | Mercy Procedure or a Nightmare? Attitude towards Pregnancy Termination among Polish University Students |
title_short | Mercy Procedure or a Nightmare? Attitude towards Pregnancy Termination among Polish University Students |
title_sort | mercy procedure or a nightmare? attitude towards pregnancy termination among polish university students |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8751103/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35010470 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19010213 |
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