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Abortion Among Adolescents: Research Findings and the Current Debate
Author(s) -
Zabin Laurie Schwab,
Sedivy Valerie
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of school health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.851
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1746-1561
pISSN - 0022-4391
DOI - 10.1111/j.1746-1561.1992.tb01250.x
Subject(s) - abortion , relevance (law) , parental consent , psychology , public opinion , population , medicine , informed consent , developmental psychology , social psychology , family medicine , alternative medicine , pregnancy , political science , law , environmental health , genetics , pathology , politics , biology
Utilizing research that focuses on adolescents as well as findings in samples which might have special relevance to young, unmarried women, this report summarizes research on the consequences of abortion among adolescents. It discusses prior literature in the area of parental notification and parental consent, subjects on which public opinion is not divided along familiar pro‐choice/anti‐choice lines. Following a discussion of methodological problems identified in prior research, it reports on a study designed to address these problems in an adolescent population; it discusses implications for the current debate of this and other studies' findings that there are no identifiable adverse sequelae of the abortion process.