Table 2.
Conditions under which key informants believe abortion to be legal, Zimbabwe 2016
| Health care providers | Experts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | N | % | N | |
| If pregnancy is from rape | 83.2 | 191 | 94.9 | 112 |
| If the woman's physical health is at risk | 71.0 | 163 | 78.8 | 93 |
| If pregnancy is from incest | 46.2 | 106 | 66.9 | 79 |
| If the fetus would be handicapped/fetal anomaly | 47.2 | 109 | 71.2 | 84 |
| If a girl is under age 16 | 4.8 | 11 | 18.6 | 22 |
| Economic reasons (e.g. cannot care for the child) | 0.0 | 0 | 1.7 | 2 |
| If the girl or woman is unmarried | 0.0 | 0 | 1.7 | 2 |
| If the woman is mentally incapacitated | 7.0 | 16 | 14.4 | 17 |
| If the woman's mental health is at risk | 4.4 | 10 | 3.4 | 4 |
| If pregnancy is from contraceptive failure | 0.0 | 0 | 0.8 | 1 |
| If the girl or woman is still in primary or secondary school | 0.0 | 0 | 0.8 | 1 |
| If the woman doesn't want the pregnancy | 1.7 | 4 | 0.8 | 1 |
| If the woman is HIV positive | 19.8 | 46 | 26.3 | 31 |
| Under no circumstances | -- | -- | 1.7 | 2 |
| Don't know | 2 | 5 | -- | -- |
| N | 230 | 118 | ||
Note: Multiple responses were allowed