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Abortion: The Debate in the United States

ABORTION: THE DEBATE IN THE UNITED STATES

Health care professionals in the 1990s are confronted with an array of issues that contain moral dimensions. Among the most controversial of these issues is abortion.

Among health care professionals also, disparate opinion exists with respect to the abortion issue. There are pro-life health care professionals and pro-choice health care professionals, as there are pro-life and pro-choice proponents in the general population. There are also health care professional health care professionals who are ambivalent towards this volatile issue. The health care professional, however, has a primary responsibility to serve her or his patients. The personal values of individual health care professionals, however, both should and do influence the approach to the discharge of an individual's professional responsibility.

Research has found that a decision to abort or not to abort is difficult for a woman, regardless of the circumstances and the nature of the decision. Research also has found that many women experience difficulty in verbally expressing their feeling with respect to a decision concerning an abortion. Health care professionals, therefore, cannot ignore a situation simply because a woman has difficulty in articulating her needs (de Costa Nunez, 1995, pp. 24-32).

The role of the health care provider in cases of abortion, however, is especially difficult for many individual health care professionals. While some individual health care professionals approach the issue in the context that the delivery of care in abortion cases is all a part of the health care delivery process, many other individual health care professionals are ambivalent both toward abortion and the role of health care professionals in cases of abortion. Many anti-choice health care professionals, however, feel it is their duty to refuse to deliver care to patients when abortion procedures are involved (Schneider,...

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