Background: Negative attitudes toward abortion among professionals providing abortionrnservices could be an obstacle even under a law which permits abortion on request. The shortagernof health care providers who are willing or trained to perform abortions undermines thernprovisions of safe abortion services, by limiting the availability of safe, legal abortion, and hasrnserious implications for women's access to abortion services and health service planning.rnObjective: The aim of this study is to assess knowledge, attitudes and intension of DMU HealthrnScience student toward safe abortion provision.rnMethods: A quantitative cross-sectional institution based study was conducted to examinernknowledge, attitude and intension of health science students (n=190) to provide safe abortionrncare services using pretested standard questionnaire at Debre Markose University.rnResult : Respondents were asked whether unsafe abortion is one of the major health problems inrntheir country. Out of all respondents, 94.2% said that it was a major health problem. 65.3%rnagreed that they are more comfortable with medical abortion than with surgical abortion. Largernmajority of respondents 89.0% reported that they were not plan to perform abortion for theirrnpatients regardless of their reason for terminating a pregnancy.rnDiscussion: More intension to provide medical abortion and surgical abortion in this study mightrnhave been the perception of students considering that higher magnitude of the problem of unsafernabortion in our country and the need of safe abortion care providers to solve maternal morbidityrnand mortality from unsafe abortion.rnConclusion and recommendation: Very surprisingly majority of students in this study havernwillingness to seek abortion care training. Although it may not be possible or desirable to requirernabortion training for every future health care provider separately, making safe abortion carerntraining a standard part of the curriculum will open avenues for both future nurses and healthrnofficer who are in favor of providing safe abortion care services. More important, expandingrnabortion training in the allied health professions will likely alleviate the abortion providerrnshortage throughout Ethiopia.rnKey word: Attitude, Intension, safe abortion provision, medical abortion, surgical abortion.