The economic crisis is pushing more women to have abortions. While the woemn respondents gave many reasons fo having abortion, the reasons was financial difficulty was the main cause. Over 1,218 women who underwent treatment at the hospital due to induced and spontaneous abortions.

About 80 percent of the women is married while 21 percent indicated they were single and admitted having induced abortion. Eithy-eith percent of those covered by the study were Roman Catholics, 58 percent reached secondary education and 30 percent reached college.