Inadequate women's knowledge about consequences of induced abortion can lead to increase illegal unsafe abortion especially in limited access to legal abortion. Among the interventions for improvement the women health programs, educational need assessment is one of the first stages. In order to assessing women's educational needs, knowledge and attitude of new married women about induced abortion examined by knowledge- attitude questionnaire in 2009. Data analyzed by using SPSS16.0 and relationship between knowledge and attitude about induced abortion and important related variables was assessed. Result of this study showed that limited percent of participants had adequate knowledge about consequences of induced abortion, while most of participants had negative attitude toward induced abortion. Also there was strong relationship between women's agreement about induced abortion, women's knowledge test score and their age of marriage, level of women's education, occupation and value of using contraception. Many of participants expressed their disapproval for induced abortion; and almost of them didn’t have the adequate knowledge about complications of unwanted pregnancies and induced abortion. Based on inadequate knowledge about induced abortion consequences in new married women, it seems that effective educational programs are a priority for health policy makers.
