Table 2.

Obstetric characteristic of reproductive age women towards Ethiopian current abortion law in Bahir Dar city, northwest Ethiopia, 2017

Variable	Category	Frequency	Percentage
Have you ever been pregnant?	Yes	179	46.37
	No	207	53.62
Gravidity	1	65	36.3
	2–4	92	51.4
	>  5	22	12.3
Age at first pregnancy	<  19	71	39.7
	20–24	72	40.2
	>  25	36	20.1
Age at first birth	<  19	50	27.9
	20–24	90	50.3
	>  25	39	21.8
Abortion history	Yes	49	27.37
	No	130	72.63
Number of abortions	1	39	79.6
	2–4	10	20.4
Abortion type	Spontaneous	39	79.6
	Induced	8	16.3
	Both	2	4.1
Reason for inducing abortion	Economical	2	25
	Unmarried*	3	37.5
	Rape	2	25
	being student	1	12.5
Place where the induced abortion done	Home	2	25
	Health institute	6	75

Unmarried* = those respondents who currently not formally married (friendship, divorced, widowed)