Conscience-Based Refusal to Provide Legal Abortion Services in Ghana

What is it about?

Unsafe abortion is a major contributor to maternal morbidity and mortality. One barrier to accessing safe abortions is clinicians’ refusal to provide legal abortions based on moral or religious beliefs, known as conscientious objection. Global Doctors for Choice/Ghana conducted a cross sectional study to determine the prevalence of conscientious objection among 213 medical providers in Northern Ghana, their motivations for objection, and their attitudes towards regulation of objection.

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Why is it important?

The study importance is to determine the prevalence of conscientious objection among medical providers in Northern Ghana, their motivation for objection and explore objector’s knowledge on Ghana’s abortion law, their attitudes and behavior towards abortion provision and possible measures to regulate conscientious objection.