at a woman may choose to undergo or reject.
Obviously, most of those working in abortion-related health services, especially those providing counseling to woman entering a clinic that provides abortion as one of its services, hold to the pro-choice rather than the pro-life view. However, it seems reasonable to ask whether the clients social workers serve have views toward abortion that are so well-delineated? As Steiner (1983) points out, many woman entering a clinic for abortion counseling actually hold very ambivalent views which is to say that they are not sure whether the decision to seek an abortion is right or wrong. In other words, these women may have entered a family planning clinic but they have not fully committed themselves to the decision to have an abortion.
This fact could place the social work counselor in an ethical bind. For example, if the social worker counselor detects ambivalence in a client, should she argue that, given a client's particular circumstances (e.g., she is only 17 years old or her family simply cannot afford another child) warrant her having an abortion?
Or, should the social worker essentially ignore the fact that the client is in conflict, say nothing about the decision and only provide medical information about the procedure? Or, s
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