British Abortion Law: Speaking from the Past to Govern the Future
British Abortion Law: Speaking from the Past to Govern the Future
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DOI：
10.1111/1468-2230.12180
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发表时间：
2016-03-01
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0.9
通讯作者：
Sheldon, Sally
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作者：
Sheldon, Sally
本文分析了在堕胎服务的背景下，老龄化的法律框架与现代对医疗最佳实践的理解之间的不协调。它特别侧重于药物流产，评估了两者之间的鸿沟对临床医生、服务提供者、监管机构和法院构成的重大挑战。如果有一个共同的监管社区，接受并支持支撑法律的价值观，那么法律就被认为是最有效的。有人认为，堕胎法的例子提供了一个明显的例子，说明当法律规范曾经被广泛认同的道德理解、对病人安全的关切和对最佳做法的要求所证明是合理的，而现在这些关切要么得不到支持，要么实际上是相反的。
This paper analyses the poor alignment of the aging statutory framework and modern understandings of medical best practice in the context of abortion services. With a particular focus on medical abortion, it assesses the significant challenges that the gulf between the two poses for clinicians, service providers, regulators and the courts. Law is said to be at its most effective where there is a shared regulatory community that accepts and endorses the values that underpin it. It is suggested that the example of abortion law provides a marked example of what happens when legal norms once justified by broadly shared moral understandings, concerns for patient safety and requirements of best practice are now either unsupported by or, indeed, sit in opposition to such concerns.