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J Med Internet Res
October 2024
Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Nutley, NJ, United States.
Background: The internet is often the first source patients turn to for medical information. YouTube is a commonly used internet-based resource for patients seeking to learn about medical procedures, including their risks, benefits, and safety profile. Abortion is a common yet polarizing medical procedure.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFront Sociol
July 2019
Polish-German Cultural-and Literary Relations and Gender Studies, Faculty of Cultural and Social Science, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt, Germany.
Gender regimes of belonging are contextually variable and closely linked to other regimes of belonging, such as the , the , or, the . In the case of Poland, this contextuality and interdependence becomes apparent when analyzing struggles between feminist and Catholic anti-choice environments. While the first group opts for gender democracy, the other favors a familistic social order.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDespite the growing body of research on the emotion of disgust - including its relationship to political ideology, moral judgment, matters of sex and sexuality, and death - the global reproductive rights movement has paid relatively little attention to the role disgust plays in the debate over abortion. By focusing on the right of a woman to make her own decision about an unwanted pregnancy, the pro-choice community has allowed anti-choice groups to define and frame the abortion procedure, abortion providers, and women who have abortions in terms associated with disgust. This commentary encourages further examination of what triggers disgust, its measurement, and ways of mitigating it, which could be useful for reducing abortion stigma, in future legal cases and in abortion research, advocacy, and communications.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCan Fam Physician
April 2011
Department of Family Practice, University of British Columbia, Canada.
Objective: To improve understanding of the attitudes, beliefs, and experiences of Muslim patients presenting for abortion.
Design: Exploratory study in which participants completed questionnaires about their attitudes, beliefs, and experiences.
Setting: Two urban, free-standing abortion clinics.
J Obstet Gynaecol Can
October 2004
University of British Columbia,Vancouver, BC.
Objective: To examine the differences in anxiety levels and attitudes towards abortion between women having an early medical abortion and women having a surgical (manual vacuum aspiration) abortion.
Methods: Women who presented for an early medical abortion or a surgical abortion at an urban, free-standing abortion clinic were invited to participate in this study. Fifty-nine women having a medical abortion and 43 women having a surgical abortion answered questionnaires before their scheduled abortion, and again 2 to 4 weeks after the abortion.
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