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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 (Hall, 1990, pp. 32-35). Research has also found that many women experience difficulty in verbally expressing their feeling with respect to a decision concerning an abortion (Fraser, 1990, pp. 45-47). The problem of verbalizing feelings in such situations is especially difficult for those women in the United States who possess a limited command of the English language. I have found that the nurse has a special obligation to provide care to such women.
While the professional nurse is dealing with a provocative issue such as abortion, he or she must sweep away the confusion purposefully introduced into the public discussion of the concepts, while simultaneously dealing with her or his own personal value system that may cause her or him abhor the act, and attempting to balance the responsibilities of a nurse to assist a patient r
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