[Comments about depenalization of voluntary interruption of pregnancy among undergraduate students of the Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez Medicine Faculty].
OBJECTIVE
To comment the most important situations to be considered as legal according to undergraduate students from Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez (UACJ) towards the voluntary termination of pregnancy.


METHODS
The research has descriptive and cross-sectional design. The instrument used is a Likert scale structured questionnaire, designed and validated previously. A statistically representative sample of students was obtained from the universe, who answered to the instrument.


RESULTS
84.3% of men and 82.0% of women agree with the voluntary termination of pregnancy, showing a statistically significant association between the attitudes and age, and religion. The situations that greater coincidence they had regarding a legal voluntary interruption of pregnancy were: unborn malformations incompatible with extrauterine life, production of serious damage to maternal health due to pregnancy, and danger of mother's death if continuing with the pregnancy.


CONCLUSIONS
These results obtained are more or less the same showed in previous researches done in Mexico (anyone in the north side of the country). It may suppose that there is certain homogeneity towards attitudes regarding the voluntary termination of pregnancy. Nevertheless, they are coincident, in some way, like a support to the liberal politics in sexual and reproductive health taken recently in the D. F.
Alvarez-Díaz
Jorge Alberto
JA
Universidad Complutense de Madrid. bioetica_reproductiva@hotmail.com
D000028:Abortion, Induced; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014495:Universities