Guttmacher Institute, New York, New York 10038, USA.
Soc Work Health Care. 2011;50(6):424-42. doi: 10.1080/00981389.2011.575538.
Abortion counseling, including informed consent laws specifying what a woman must be told to obtain an abortion, have been the subject of a great deal of social policy. Using a qualitative sample of 49 women seeking abortions in 2008, we asked women whether they had their mind made up when they called the clinic to make their appointment as well as what they wanted from abortion counseling. The majority of women contacting the abortion clinic had already made up their minds to have an abortion and were therefore not seeking options counseling. Neither were they seeking to emotionally confide in their abortion counselors: They anticipated that the counselor would try to discourage them from having an abortion, they stated that they had met their emotional needs elsewhere, and they feared that confiding in the counselor might endanger their ability to obtain an abortion. They perceived other women needed counseling, though, to help them make a responsible decision. A cafeteria-style approach to counseling that allows women to specify what their needs are would better match abortion counseling with women's stated needs. These data have the potential to inform public policy to better suit abortion-related counseling with women's needs.
人工流产咨询，包括规定妇女在获得人工流产前必须被告知哪些内容的知情同意法，一直是大量社会政策的主题。我们使用了 2008 年 49 名寻求人工流产的妇女的定性样本，询问妇女在打电话预约诊所时是否已经下定决心，以及她们希望从人工流产咨询中得到什么。大多数联系人工流产诊所的妇女已经下定决心要进行人工流产，因此她们不需要选择咨询。她们也不想向人工流产咨询师倾诉自己的感情：她们预计咨询师会试图劝阻她们进行人工流产，她们表示已经在其他地方满足了自己的情感需求，并且担心向咨询师倾诉可能会危及她们获得人工流产的能力。然而，她们认为其他妇女需要咨询，以帮助她们做出负责任的决定。一种自助式的咨询方式，允许妇女指定自己的需求，这将更好地满足妇女对人工流产咨询的需求。这些数据有可能为公共政策提供信息，以更好地满足与妇女需求相关的人工流产咨询。
