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- The study looked at how female Mexican doctors become pro-choice and what influences their beliefs about abortion.
- It involved interviews with 24 doctors to understand their experiences and views, revealing factors like feminism, personal experiences, role models, and exposure to abortion care.
- The study suggests that without proper training in abortion care, personal experiences can significantly shape a doctor’s pro-choice stance and how they advocate for women's rights.
Article Abstract
Objectives: There is little evidence about how physicians become abortion clinicians or advocates. We describe the ideological trajectories of pro-choice female Mexican doctors and the factors that made them pro-choice.
Study Design: In this qualitative study, we conducted semistructured interviews with members of the Mexican Network of Female Pro-choice Physicians. Participants came from eight diverse states. We used a feminist epistemology approach and analyzed data using inductive coding as well as a priori categories (becoming pro-choice, trajectories, and training).
Results: We included 24 female pro-choice physicians. We identified five intersecting factors that influenced becoming pro-choice: feminism, personal experiences, confrontation with the inequalities and violence that women experience, role models, and routine exposure to abortion care. Participants described three ideological trajectories: being pro-choice before studying medicine, not having a specific opinion, and changing from "pro-life" to "pro-choice." Participants described the absence of abortion training in medical schools, stigmatizing training, and the use of alternative training sources.
Conclusions: In the absence of training on abortion during medical education, a combination of intersecting personal as well as work-related experience may turn doctors into pro-choice abortion clinicians and/or advocates. The findings of this study may be used to develop comprehensive medical curricula as well as strategies directed at doctors who have never received training on abortion care, such as promoting interactions with nonmedical abortion providers, education on inequalities and violence against women, moving beyond public health to a human rights and gender perspective, and exposure to routine safe abortion care.
Implications: Mexican female doctors become pro-choice clinicians who provide abortion care and/or advocates in spite of their medical education.
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| http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.contraception.2024.110473 | DOI Listing |
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