Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences, Durham Law School, Durham University, Durham, UK.
Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics and Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Camb Q Healthc Ethics. 2023 Jul;32(3):378-390. doi: 10.1017/S096318012200086X. Epub 2023 Jan 23.
This paper argues that abortion access is an important subject for bioethics scholarship and reflects on the relationship between legal frameworks and access to care. The author uses the example of the United Kingdom to examine the benefits and limitations of abortion- legal frameworks in terms of access. These are legal frameworks that enable the provision of abortion but subject to restrictions. An abortion-permissive regime-first in Great Britain and then in Northern Ireland-has gone some way to improving access to care over time. However, aspects of the regime (that lead to its description as permissive rather than supportive of abortion) have the potential to endanger abortion access in the future and so legal reform is necessary.
本文认为，堕胎机会是生物伦理学研究的一个重要课题，并反思了法律框架与获得护理之间的关系。作者以英国为例，从获得护理的角度，审视了堕胎法律框架的益处和局限性。这些法律框架允许提供堕胎服务，但要受到限制。一段时间以来，一种堕胎许可制度——先是在大不列颠，然后是在北爱尔兰——在一定程度上改善了护理的可及性。然而，该制度的某些方面（导致其被描述为对堕胎的宽容而不是支持）有可能危及未来的堕胎机会，因此需要进行法律改革。
