Publication: Unwanted pregnancy: It's existing solutions from the perspective of young adults in Bangkok and the abortion law
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1996-01-01
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07231393
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Mahidol University
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Medicine and Law. Vol.15, No.2 (1996), 365-373
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P. Prajayayothin, R. Dhamprapha Unwanted pregnancy: It's existing solutions from the perspective of young adults in Bangkok and the abortion law. Medicine and Law. Vol.15, No.2 (1996), 365-373. Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/17772
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Unwanted pregnancy: It's existing solutions from the perspective of young adults in Bangkok and the abortion law
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727 students of 15 to 24 years old in Bangkok were randomly selected to study their opinion towards existing solutions for unwanted pregnancy and the conformity or controversy of their suggested solutions to Thai Abortion law. The SPSS/PC package program was used for data analysis. The results show that more than 80 percent of the youth in this study do not prefer abortion methods, despite it's being vastly used, as a means to solve the problem and that the abortion must be done under the Thai Criminal Law section 305 (1) and (2). Otherwise, it might be reasonable for some critical medical conditions such as high risk pregnancy or anti HIV+ve. Hence, it is confirmed that the young adult's opinion towards abortion go along with the law almost completely except for the aspects of the baby's health and genetic diseases. With regard to better solutions of unwanted pregnancy, Thai young adults strongly recommend resolutions of allowing progress of pregnancy on the basis of kindliness and understanding of human-being in crisis with warm support from within and outside the families. Also needed is the strengthening of the virtue of Thai culture along with sufficient sex education for the young generation.
