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A Study of Abortion and Problems in Decision‐Making *
Author(s) -
Cotroneo Margaret,
Krasner Barbara R.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
journal of marital and family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.868
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1752-0606
pISSN - 0194-472X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0606.1977.tb00446.x
Subject(s) - sadness , abortion , ideology , grief , learned helplessness , pregnancy , psychology , social psychology , developmental psychology , psychotherapist , law , political science , biology , politics , genetics , anger
This paper is directed to people who, sufficiently disturbed by the complex realities of problem pregnancies, are prepared to think beyond the confines of ideology. It is a challenge to people who tend to reduce the problem of unwanted pregnancies either to “abortion on demand” or to “right to life” ideologies, thereby ignoring the relationship dynamics that impact, shape, and enable the process of decision‐making with its implications for mutual caring and for long‐term trust. Rebalancing the emphases on ideologies and individual rights, this article is multidirectional in approach. It surfaces a concern for the unborn fetus, for the woman and the man involved, and for future human relatedness in which the capacity for trust and accountability are actualized rather than forced to stagnate.