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Wealthy and educated women in Ghana are more likely to abort their unwanted pregnancies than their counterparts who are poor and uneducated, research has shown.
The research was conducted by the University of Cape Coast Department of Population and Health.
The results rank maternal mortality the second commonest cause of death amongst women in the country and more than one in every 10 deaths are as a result of unsafe abortion.
Twenty-one out of a 1,000 women between the ages of 20 and 40 years in urban were found by the research to engage in abortion.
That figure is even twice higher in the rural areas.
Source: Joy News/Ghana
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