Abortion from a Nurse's Perspective

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This paper explores the issue of abortion, primarily as it relates to American women, from the unusual vantage point of obstetrical and gynecological nurses. As the author argues, these medical practitioners may have the greatest contact with the subject. The paper begins with an overview and update on the legal actions and ramifications of abortion. Then the paper studies the moral and ethical values, as seen, felt and practiced by nurses.

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"Perhaps not since the vituperative Civil Rights movement in the 1950s and '60s, when ideology turned ugly and caused deaths and injury, has any subject been as vehemently argued as the issue of Abortion. This issue is neither academic nor even, perhaps, objective. A woman faced with an unwanted pregnancy generally understands at some visceral level that there is human life inside her, making that question moot. The fact is that most people agree that abortion should be a rare procedure Abortion is, and likely will always be, fraught with emotional and physical turmoil. The turmoil has brought into focus not merely legal accountings for the (at least) legal approval of abortion (Roe vs. Wade in 1973) but has divided much of society into two sometimes armed and irrational camps. "

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