Abstract:Where legal systems allow therapeutic abortion to preserve women's mental health, practitioners often lack access to mental health professionals for making critical diagnoses or prognoses that pregnancy or childcare endangers patients' mental health. Practitioners themselves must then make clinical assessments of the impact on their patients of continued pregnancy or childcare. The law requires only that practitioners make assessments in good faith, and by credible criteria. Mental disorder includes psychologi… Show more
“…Possible psychosocial issues could influence decision making and delay of abortion. Providers should predict latter capability for motherhood in unfavorable life circumstances [10][11][12][13] .…”
Pregnant women with psychiatric indication for late-term abortion belong to lower socioeconomic and educational level group compared to women without this indication who have more frequently elevated anxiety and distress reactions to unwanted pregnancy. It is necessary to have more accurate guidelines for mental health indications for legally approved late-term abortion, respecting social circumstances. Preventive measures are of great importance in order to lower the risk of illegally performed late-term abortions.
“…Possible psychosocial issues could influence decision making and delay of abortion. Providers should predict latter capability for motherhood in unfavorable life circumstances [10][11][12][13] .…”
Pregnant women with psychiatric indication for late-term abortion belong to lower socioeconomic and educational level group compared to women without this indication who have more frequently elevated anxiety and distress reactions to unwanted pregnancy. It is necessary to have more accurate guidelines for mental health indications for legally approved late-term abortion, respecting social circumstances. Preventive measures are of great importance in order to lower the risk of illegally performed late-term abortions.
“…Depending on a woman's background and circumstances, distress over a pregnancy resulting from rape or incest, a diagnosis of a severe fetal impairment or a pregnancy occurring outside of marriage may all be deemed sufficient grounds for an abortion under these laws. 5 Socioeconomic factors are explicitly recognized as grounds for abortion by countries in the fourth category. Fourteen countries, in which more than 20% of the world's people live, have laws that permit a medical provider to take a woman's social and economic circumstances into account when determining her eligibility for an abortion.…”
“…Quant aux pathologies psychiatriques lourdes, les risques sont le devenir de l'enfant et le risque de suicide chez la femme [6]. La stabilisation et l'encadrement permettent dans certains cas d'envisager néanmoins une grossesse.…”
Section: Contre-indication Formelle Ou Non ?unclassified
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