Social stigma and disclosure about induced abortion: Results from an exploratory study
Social stigma and disclosure about induced abortion: Results from an exploratory study
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DOI：
10.1080/17441692.2011.594072
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发表时间：
2011-01-01
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Tsui, Amy O.
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作者：
Shellenberg, Kristen M.;Moore, Ann M.;Tsui, Amy O.
人们普遍认识到，不安全堕胎对妇女的身体健康有重大影响;然而，人们对妇女在堕胎方面的耻辱感和堕胎信息披露方面的看法和经历并不十分了解。本文研究了五个国家堕胎污名的存在和强度，并试图了解污名是如何被认为和经历的妇女终止意外怀孕，并影响她随后的披露行为。该文件是根据2006年在墨西哥、尼日利亚、巴基斯坦、秘鲁和美国对妇女和男子进行的重点小组和半结构化深入访谈编写的。在法律自由和限制的背景下，人们对堕胎的耻辱感的看法相似，尽管在堕胎受到高度限制的国家这种耻辱感更为明显。尽管参与者列举了堕胎的许多社会后果，但个人对经历过耻辱的描述有限。与堕胎有关的耻辱感在披露个人堕胎行为方面发挥了重要作用。
It is well recognised that unsafe abortions have significant implications for women's physical health; however, women's perceptions and experiences with abortion-related stigma and disclosure about abortion are not well understood. This paper examines the presence and intensity of abortion stigma in five countries, and seeks to understand how stigma is perceived and experienced by women who terminate an unintended pregnancy and influences her subsequent disclosure behaviours. The paper is based upon focus groups and semi-structured in-depth interviews conducted with women and men in Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru and the United States (USA) in 2006. The stigma of abortion was perceived similarly in both legally liberal and restrictive settings although it was more evident in countries where abortion is highly restricted. Personal accounts of experienced stigma were limited, although participants cited numerous social consequences of having an abortion. Abortion-related stigma played an important role in disclosure of individual abortion behaviour.