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The objectives of this survey research were to study attitudes of OB-GYN doctors towards Thai abortion law and appropriate solutions to explain general characteristics and experiences of the subjects to evaluate the knowledge  level about Thai abortion law and to determine the associations between these factors. A total of 68 OB-GYN  doctors who worked in Phramongkutklao Hospital and Rajchavithi Hospital from 15th December 2003 to 20th January 2004 were the subjects in this study. Close-ended questionnaires were used for data collection and were  distributed by the researcher. Frequency percentage mean and standard deviation were applied to describethe subjects. Pearson’s product moment correlation was used to test the hypotheses. The results indicated that more than two thirds (72.1%) of the participants had attitudes towards Thai abortion law at a moderate level. Also 54.4% of them had attitudes towards solutions available for this law at a moderate level. It was found that only 23.5% of  them had a high knowledge level about Thai abortion law. There was a significantly positive correlation between attitudes towards Thai abortion law and attitudes towards solution of this law (p<0.05). Moreover it was revealed that age and knowledge were positively related to attitude towards Thai abortion law (p<0.05). Conversely there was no correlation between experience and attitudes towards Thai abortion law and the solutions to a pregnancy available under current Thai abortion law.