摘要
Unintended pregnancy often ends with induced abortion,an outcome that affects a woman’s physical and mental health and consumes social resources.A national fertility survey conducted by the former National Health and Family Planning Com-mission in 2017,gathered data on pregnancies among married women aged 15-49 to analyze the changing circumstances of such pregnancies and the factors that influ-ence their occurrence.The analysis found that the incidence of unintended pregnan-cies among married women in China was 42.4‰in 2017,and that such pregnancies accounted for 22.9%of all pregnancies in China for the years 2010-2017.Of all abortions,91.9%were used to terminate unintended pregnancies,and of unintended pregnancies,67.1%ended with induced abortions.The incidence of unintended pregnancy and that of induced abortion to terminate the unintended pregnancy were higher among women living in an urban rather than a rural area,having previously given birth to a boy,having a large number of children,being at the older end of their childbearing years,or having a shorter interpregnancy interval.Only 37.3%of women chose long-term contraceptive methods after an induced abortion caused by an unintended pregnancy;their sense of self-protection was not strong.It is neces-sary to strengthen education and advocacy,enhance women’s awareness of the pro-tection contraceptives offer,and improve the quality of and access to contraceptive services to reduce the incidence of unintended pregnancy,and reduce the incidence of induced abortion to terminate unintended pregnancy.
