4.6.1 

Condoms 

and 

Withdrawal........................................................................28 

4.6.2  The Pill, Injectables, and IUDs ................................................................29 

  4.6.3 

Rumors.....................................................................................................30 

5 

Finding Out About the Pregnancy and Deciding Whether to Terminate or to  

Continue the Pregnancy ...................................................................................................33 

 5.1 

I'm 

Pregnant.........................................................................................................33 

5.2 

Girl and Boyfriend Agree on Birth or Abortion ..................................................34 

  5.2.1 

Deciding 

to 

Give 

Birth 

to 

a First Child or to Terminate 

   the 

Pregnancy...........................................................................................35 

5.2.2  Agreeing to Terminate a pregnancy.........................................................37 

  5.2.3 

Boyfriends 

and 

Husbands ........................................................................39 

5.2.4  Giving Birth or Spacing Second Children ...............................................40 

5.3 

Girl and Boyfriend Do Not Agree .......................................................................41 

5.3.1  Boyfriend Does Not Accept Responsibility.............................................41 

5.3.2  Girl Wants Abortion, Boyfriend or Husband Wants Birth ......................43  

5.3.3  Girl Wants Birth, Boyfriend or Husband Wants Abortion ......................45 

5.4 

Parents or Guardians Decided..............................................................................45 

6 

Information, Resources, and Techniques for Managing Abortion and  

Birth in Ga Mashi Town ..................................................................................................49 

6.1 

Knowledge About Abortion.................................................................................49 

6.1.1  Early Abortions are Better than Later Abortions:  

   Effects 

on 

Fertility ...................................................................................50 

  6.1.2 

Sin 

or 

Necessity?......................................................................................51 

  6.1.3 

Keeping 

Abortion 

a 

Secret.......................................................................52 

6.2 

Experiences of Surgical Abortions ......................................................................52 

  6.2.1 

Hospital 

Abortions ...................................................................................53 

6.2.2  Abortions in Hospital Staff Quarters .......................................................54 

  6.2.3 

Private 

Clinic 

Abortions ..........................................................................55 

  6.2.4 

Postabortion 

Complications from Clinic Abortions ................................55 

6.2.5  Cost of Clinic Abortions ..........................................................................56 

  6.2.6 

Postabortion 

Counseling 

After 

Clinic 

Abortions.....................................57 

6.2.7  Incomplete Plans and Failed Attempts to Obtain Clinic Abortions.........58 

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