{"id":179568,"date":"2024-08-30T15:49:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T13:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibians-support-womens-autonomy-sex-education-and-access-to-contraception-but-are-divided-on-termination-of-pregnancies\/"},"modified":"2024-08-30T15:49:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T13:49:32","slug":"namibians-support-womens-autonomy-sex-education-and-access-to-contraception-but-are-divided-on-termination-of-pregnancies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibians-support-womens-autonomy-sex-education-and-access-to-contraception-but-are-divided-on-termination-of-pregnancies\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibians Support Women&#8217;s Autonomy, Sex Education, and Access to Contraception, but Are Divided On Termination of Pregnancies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">Most citizens say girls who get pregnant should be allowed to continue their education.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Namibians strongly support women&#8217;s and girls&#8217; autonomy in making decisions about whether and when they should marry (80%) and about the timing and number of children to have (81%). Support for women&#8217;s autonomy is particularly strong among women, young citizens, and more educated respondents.<\/li>\n<li>About three out of four Namibians support access to contraceptives regardless of people&#8217;s marital status&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408280011.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most citizens say girls who get pregnant should be allowed to continue their education. Key findings Namibians strongly support women&#8217;s and girls&#8217; autonomy in making decisions about whether and when they should marry (80%) and about the timing and number of children to have (81%). Support for women&#8217;s autonomy is particularly strong among women, young [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":179569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[6450,258,256,16929,29155,9812,1632,724,7974,257,16201,6711,254,6096,18010,6460],"class_list":["post-179568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-access","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-autonomy","tag-contraception","tag-divided","tag-education","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibians","tag-news","tag-pregnancies","tag-sex","tag-south-africa-today","tag-support","tag-termination","tag-womens"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}