The Yoruba society like any other society has a history to responses to the abortion problem. From the typical traditional Yoruba society to its contemporary composition, these responses as been rooted in religions and traditional medicine of the people. Our findings have shown that even in the typical Yoruba traditional society where a lot of premium was placed on the sanctity of life procreation and strict sexual morality which outlawed pre-marital sex and extra-marital sex by women and in addition with religious categorical disapproval, abortion still took place. Consequently there were seekers and provider of abortion for various reasons. To procure abortion, trado-medical cum religious method was generally employed. These ranged from herbal preparation insertion of objects, verbal incantation to offering of sacrifices. A major practical response to the problem posed by abortion was the employment of contraceptives to prevent unwanted pregnancies. Again the method adopted was religious and

medical. It is significant to point out that in the contemporary Yoruba society in spite of the availability of western medical methods many seeker of abortion still patronize the traditional herbalist to procure abortion and traditional contraceptives. This demonstrates the fact that any solution to the abortion problem in the contemporary Yoruba society cannot be achieved without taking into consideration and utilization of methods rooted in the religion and traditional medicine of the people. Our conviction is that much can be achieved within the Yoruba community in grappling with the abortion problem, by adopting a pragmatic problem in legalization use of contraceptive (traditional inclusive) and realistic sexuality. This is consequent on the conviction that effective responses to the abortion problem are only realizable when the cultural, social, and medical peculiarities rooted in the traditions of a particular society or people are taken into consideration and utilized.