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Received: 24 September 2018

Accepted: 17 January 2019

First Online: 28 January 2019

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: The project was approved by the academic commission of the Centre for Gender Studies at Addis Ababa University, and by the Norwegian Centre for Research Data as a sub-component of the larger project ‘Competing discourses impacting girls’ and women’s rights: Fertility control and safe abortion in Ethiopia, Zambia and Tanzania’ (57089/3/00SIRH).Verbal consent was obtained from all the research participants prior to the interviews.

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