{"id":226738,"date":"2026-03-13T01:32:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambians-support-womens-autonomy-in-marriage-and-reproduction-decisions-but-strongly-oppose-abortion\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T01:32:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:32:06","slug":"zambians-support-womens-autonomy-in-marriage-and-reproduction-decisions-but-strongly-oppose-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambians-support-womens-autonomy-in-marriage-and-reproduction-decisions-but-strongly-oppose-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambians Support Women&#8217;s Autonomy in Marriage and Reproduction Decisions, but Strongly Oppose Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">Citizens endorse sex education in schools but want restrictions on access to contraceptives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Large majorities of Zambians say girls and women should be able to decide for themselves whether and when to marry (68%) as well as when to have children and how many children to have (63%).<\/li>\n<li>Women are much more likely than men to believe in women&#8217;s autonomy in reproductive choices (70% vs. 57%).<\/li>\n<li>More than nine in 10 Zambians (95%) say pupils who get pregnant or have children should be allowed&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603120414.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citizens endorse sex education in schools but want restrictions on access to contraceptives. Key findings Large majorities of Zambians say girls and women should be able to decide for themselves whether and when to marry (68%) as well as when to have children and how many children to have (63%). Women are much more likely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":226739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[18508,258,256,16929,14296,9795,257,8729,39526,254,9807,6096,6460,881,9005],"class_list":["post-226738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-abortion","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-autonomy","tag-decisions","tag-marriage","tag-news","tag-oppose","tag-reproduction","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strongly","tag-support","tag-womens","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambians"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/226738","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=226738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}