[Abortion--a taboo right. Women's complex experiences include

Läkartidningen · Nov 2005

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[Abortion--a taboo right. Women's complex experiences include both relief and pain].

Women resort to abortion in all possible contexts and the motives for abortion reflect the need of women for planned parenthood. Women's experiences of abortion are complex; the abortion is experienced as a relief and regarded as a form of exercising responsibility. ⋯ As long as abortion is understood primarily as a last resort among special risk groups and not as a phenomenon which reflect reproductive expectations among all groups in society, abortion will retain its image as something taboo. In addition, as long as women's complex considerations and experiences in relation to abortion remain hidden the myths about abortion will live on.

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- Anneli Kero.
- Institutionen för klinisk vetenskap/obstetrik och gynekologi, institutionen för socialt arbete, Umeå universitet. anneli.kero@obgyn.umu.se
- Lakartidningen. 2005 Nov 28;102(48):3677-80.
AbstractWomen resort to abortion in all possible contexts and the motives for abortion reflect the need of women for planned parenthood. Women's experiences of abortion are complex; the abortion is experienced as a relief and regarded as a form of exercising responsibility. This does not exclude ethical reasoning or simultaneous painful feelings. As long as abortion is understood primarily as a last resort among special risk groups and not as a phenomenon which reflect reproductive expectations among all groups in society, abortion will retain its image as something taboo. In addition, as long as women's complex considerations and experiences in relation to abortion remain hidden the myths about abortion will live on.

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