Moral dilemmas and abortion decision-making: Lessons learnt from abortion research in England and Wales

Hoggart, Lesley (2019). Moral dilemmas and abortion decision-making: Lessons learnt from abortion research in England and Wales. Global Public Health, 14(1) pp. 1–8.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2018.1474482

Abstract

This paper scrutinises the concepts of moral reasoning and personal reasoning, problematising the binary model by looking at young women's pregnancy decision-making. Data from two UK empirical studies are subjected to theoretically driven qualitative secondary analysis, and illustrative cases show how complex decision-making is characterised by an intertwining of the personal and the moral, and is thus best understood by drawing on moral relativism.

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• Keywords
• Abortion; moral dilemmas; reproductive control; moral agency; decision-making
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• Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Health, Wellbeing and Social Care > Health and Social Care
  Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Health, Wellbeing and Social Care
  Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS)
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