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Is it Wrong to Abort a Person?
Published in Christopher Kaczor, The Ethics of Abortion, 2023
Indeed, such is the case with abortion. Even defenders of abortion note that abortion is itself sometimes burdensome. As Boonin notes, “To set the [violinist] analogy straight, then, we must specify that the process of unplugging yourself from the violinist also imposes a variety of costs or risks of costs, and of comparable magnitude” (2003, p. 241). The physical costs of abortion can include (but are not limited to) swelling, vomiting, cramps, sterilization, excessive bleeding, and pain. Of course, like bringing a pregnancy to term, these costs are not endured at all or to the same degree by every woman who has an abortion.
Day 1
Published in Bertha Alvarez Manninen, Dialogues on the Ethics of Abortion, 2022
At the very least in early to mid-pregnancy, but in some cases, yes even later abortions are acceptable. I do think that obtaining later abortions require more pressing moral reasons than early abortions, and perhaps some restrictions on later abortions can be justified. But in some cases, I do believe the reasons for obtaining a later abortion are valid ones. Early abortions, however, where 91% of them happen, are completely morally justifiable.
Gynaecology, Fertility and Family Planning
Published in Miriam Orcutt, Clare Shortall, Sarah Walpole, Aula Abbara, Sylvia Garry, Rita Issa, Alimuddin Zumla, Ibrahim Abubakar, Handbook of Refugee Health, 2021
Zahra Ameen, Kopal Singhal Agarwal, Chawan Baran, Lauren Laws, Maria Garcia de Frutos, Black Benjamin
All women should be routinely offered pain medication (e.g. non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) NSAIDs) during abortions. General anaesthesia is not recommended routinely for vacuum aspiration abortion or dilatation and evacuation (D&E). Anaesthetic options include local anaesthesia, conscious sedation, deep sedation or general anaesthesia. This will depend on gestation and local expertise. A paracervical block using 20 ml of lidocaine can be performed prior to abortion procedures. Other anaesthetic options include conscious sedation, deep sedation or general anaesthesia. This will depend on gestation and local expertise.
People’s knowledge of and attitudes toward abortion laws before and after the Dobbs v. Jackson decision
Published in Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2023
Kristen N. Jozkowski, Xiana Bueno, Ronna C. Turner, Brandon L. Crawford, Wen-Juo Lo
Additionally, because various contextual factors (i.e. weeks’ gestation, pregnancy circumstances) influence people’s attitudes,19,37 levels of specificity of items are also important to consider. When asking about specific circumstances in relation to weeks’ gestation, large majorities of people indicated abortion should be legal at 15 weeks or later. But this leads to questions about what circumstances researchers should include. The General Social Survey has asked the same six circumstances for 50 years, three of which are sometimes reflected in legislative exceptions to abortion bans (e.g. pregnancy occurring because of rape and abortion sought due to life endangerment or fetal anomaly), but generally do not represent common reasons people seek abortion.32 Thus, having a clear justification for the constraints placed on abortion attitude items, whether it be different weeks’ gestation or circumstantial factors, is important.
The impact of COVID-19 lockdown on abortion care: a time series analysis of data from Marie Stopes Nepal
Published in Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2022
Corrina Horan, Melissa Palmer, Raman Shrestha, Chelsey Porter Erlank, Kathryn Church
Client information centre (CLIC) data were collected from clients at the time of service provision, both to facilitate client care and for reporting purposes. Patient-level data collected included basic sociodemographic factors (age, sex, number of children, occupation and educational attainment), last menstrual period and the type of SRH services sought that day (such as abortion care, contraception, vaccinations or general health counselling). Data were entered electronically by reception clerks following initial clinician data entry on paper forms. A dataset was extracted from CLIC in a fully anonymised format. Individual transaction-level data (i.e. unique service units) were collapsed into visit level data, using unique IDs. For our analysis, abortion care is referring to attendance for a medical or surgical procedure to end a pregnancy. Additionally, post-abortion care is referring to both repeat surgical/medical procedures and counselling/other general follow-up could be provided for treatment undertaken either at an MSN clinic or another abortion provider.
Understanding the role of race in abortion stigma in the United States: a systematic scoping review
Published in Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2022
Katherine Brown, Ruth Laverde, Jill Barr-Walker, Jody Steinauer
As a part of their published dissertation research, Welter conducted a phenomenological study of Mexican-American women’s experiences of abortion.41 Welter found that women’s understandings of culture and religion were deeply intertwined, and that multiple aspects may contribute to how women view their abortion experiences, including cultural and religious views of unplanned pregnancy and cultural norms of being secretive and private with personal affairs. Participants in this study found that sharing abortion stories did help with healing. While participants made abortion decisions for themselves, their cultural values drove the interpretation of the meaning of their abortion experiences which resulted in negative emotions around abortion, including shame and guilt, for many.41