Abortion in a conservative nation like Nigeria is been considered illegal and carries a heavy jail sentence, up to 14 years imprisonment, unless it is performed to save the life of the pregnant woman.

Nevertheless, a large number of secret or illegal abortions continue to be carried out regularly across a very culture and religion, often with dire consequences for the lives and health of the young lady involved. And this very trend keeps increasing daily.

In 2017, the annual incidence of likely abortions in Nigeria was 41.1 per 1,000 women age 15 to 49 — nearly 1.8 million abortions. When including information related to the experience of respondents’ closest confidantes, the number of likely abortions in Nigeria rose to 2.7 million.

Also, more than 6 out of 10 abortions were considered least safe, and 11% of women experienced complications for which they sought postabortion care at a health facility.

Women living in rural areas of the country, women with no education, and women who are poor were the most likely to have the least safe abortions.

This now brings us to the question; what is the brain behind high rate of illegal abortion in Nigeria despite the practice being illegal? However, below are factors that contribute to high rate of abortion in Nigeria;......
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