Washington D.C. [USA], Dec. 24 (ANI): Abortion care in the UK is ‘heading towards a crisis’ and reformation of the law is needed to remove stigma, encourage doctors to provide terminations and improve equitable access to excellent, modern abortion services, says a new study.
The study was published in the journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care.
“Among the challenges women seeking abortion face include inequitable access, a lack of trained staff, stigmatisation and a culture of exceptionalism,” said a researcher Dr Sandy Goldbeck-Wood from Cambridge University Hospitals.
The law is, therefore, widely seen by clinicians as “hypocritical and anachronistic,” explains Dr Goldbeck-Wood.
Organisations calling for the law to be reformed include the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, the Royal College of Nursing, the Royal College of Midwives and other women’s health organisations.
And if the law is to be reformed, says Dr Goldbeck-Wood, there will be a strong need for debate which is respectful and acknowledges the ethical complexity in this sensitive area of health care.
Another problem is that abortion care has become artificially separated from the rest of reproductive health care, she adds.
Trainees in obstetrics and gynaecology – among them the potential service providers of the future – have too little opportunity to benefit from the learning environment that abortion care offers.
The lead study author Dr Louise Keogh from the University of Melbourne assessed the decriminalisation of abortion in the Victoria state of Australia in 2008.
The findings indicated that a change in the law has empowered women and increased clarity and safety for clinicians, but has failed to address stigma, access to services and workforce sustainability.
“Removal of specific criminal prohibitions against abortion should not be seen as a panacea, even though it is important to remove criminal law prohibitions and to establish abortion care as a health issue,” said another researcher Sally Sheldon from Kent University in the London.
Much more work is needed to remove stigma, encourage doctors to provide terminations and improve “equitable access to excellent, modern abortion services,” she concludes. (ANI)
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December 24, 2016 at 1:41 pm
The stigma of abortion is based on religious teaching, the dominant belief that abortion is murder. But society needs to know that there is more than one Judeo-Christian religious belief about abortion, and not all believe that abortion is murder. One religious belief should never be legislated on those who do not share it.
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December 24, 2016 at 3:12 pm
Oh com-on Cheryel, Your belief that abortion should be legal was legislated on me. If I get the power, why shouldn’t mine be legislated on you?
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December 24, 2016 at 7:51 pm
Hello again, John Dunkle, you old troll! Don’t be silly. No one ever legislated that you should have an abortion against your will.
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December 25, 2016 at 4:38 am
What about this: your belief that abortion should be legal was legislated on me; why should my belief that abortion should not be legal not be legislated on you? Ain’t fair fair?
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December 25, 2016 at 2:26 pm
Sorry, anonymous is John Dunkle.
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December 26, 2016 at 5:19 pm
I found my piece about The Baby Store, which I think is appropriate to this discussion. Laurasmith, I am presuming on your hospitality to post one-third of it here:
THE BABY STORE:
This story is not told by so-called “pro-lifers”:
In America, a child is born approximately every nine seconds, about 7 per minute, about 400 per hour, 96,000 per day, 3.5 million every year.
Imagine if you will these newborns coming out of the Baby Store, most of them brought out by a parent (in half the cases, two parents). Every nine seconds, the door opens up and a new baby comes out.
Due to the sheer force of probability, each one of them has a destiny fairly well shaped for it as soon as its mother decides to carry it to term:
•Every eighteen seconds a child is born who for most of his life will barely, if at all, know his biological father
•Every 27 seconds, a baby is born whose parents never intended for him to exist
•Every thirty-six seconds, a baby is born who will not graduate high school
•Every thirty-six seconds, a child is born to a life without health insurance
•Every thirty-six seconds, a baby is born who will live in a family with an alcoholic parent
•Every forty-five seconds a child will be born to live in poverty
•Every sixty-three seconds a child is born who will be left alone at home unsupervised between the ages of five and fourteen
•Every eighty-one seconds a baby is born who will come home after school to an empty house
•Of the ten babies born every minute and a half, four are born to mothers weren’t “elated about their condition.”
•Every minute and a half a baby is born whose family pays more than half of its income for rent- two and a half times the national average.
John Dunkle will now tell us how many children he has saved from any of these fates. He is a hero, you know, and that’s what heroes do.
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December 27, 2016 at 4:27 am
Your fourth point above — that’s every thirty-three seconds.
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