Table 5 Factors associated with the attitude of respondents of attitude towards legalization of abortion, in Arba Minch town 2017
Attitude toward legalization of abortion | B | Sig. | AOR | 95% C.I. for AOR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Positive | Negative | Lower | Upper | |||||
Marital status | Married | 93 | 172 | .000 | ||||
Single | 26 | 25 | −1.707 | .000 | .181 | .087 | .377 | |
Divorced | 22 | 5 | −1.778 | .000 | .169 | .062 | .460 | |
Widowed | 16 | 25 | −.051 | .879 | .950 | .489 | 1.844 | |
Educational level | College & above | 64 | 63 | .000 | ||||
Illiterate | 4 | 37 | 1.569 | .010 | 4.804 | 1.453 | 15.881 | |
Read and write | 26 | 62 | 2.421 | .000 | 11.26 | 4.490 | 28.227 | |
Primary school | 53 | 58 | 1.299 | .000 | 3.666 | 1.772 | 7.581 | |
Secondary school | 10 | 7 | 1.233 | .036 | 3.431 | 1.083 | 10.869 | |
Pregnancy terminated | Yes | 54 | 45 | −1.717 | .000 | .180 | .095 | .339 |
No | 103 | 182 | .033 | .773 | 1.034 | |||
Do you know, currently abortion on demand is legal or illegal in Ethiopia | ||||||||
Don’t know | 62 | 107 | .000 | |||||
Illegal | 38 | 87 | −1.494 | .000 | .224 | .123 | .409 | |
Legal | 57 | 33 | .609 | .013 | 1.839 | 1.137 | 2.976 | |