Understanding Attitudes, Stigma and Counseling Methods associated with Abortions
Marsha Escayg
Medgar Evers College

The abortion rates in the United States is higher than that in most other developed countries. Although this fact alone requires attention, looking deeper reveals additional areas of concern. According to Greene this research is based on the different confinements on abortion that have been forced under the falsification that women may be ignorant, undecided or pressured as to their choice to end a pregnancy. Of all the health decisions women make in their lifetimes, their choice to end a pregnancy is among the most individual and socially challenged. What this article does is address the gap in knowledge by describing the counseling tools and practices at one large abortion clinic in the US. It examines how confidence in decisions making varies by demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of women and pregnancy-related attributes. Furthermore it reviews women’s responses to questions aimed at identifying those with specific beliefs about spirituality or abortion. Overall what was found was that upon arrival to the clinic women had high pre-counseling confidence in their decision to terminate their pregnancy. Abortion policies concentrates on prerequisites, for example, waiting periods, state-mandated information and parental association. These laws are focused around the premise that women are unaware of the nature of the abortion and the dangers included, and require extra data and time to settle on an astute choice. Information from this study recommend that such presumptions are not exact. In almost 9 out of 10 cases, women communicated high trust in their abortion decision before they got any advising. Moreover, one-size fits all arrangements may not address the complex needs of women who experience irresoluteness, have negative convictions about abortion, feel constrained to have an abortion, have spiritual worries about abortion or have low levels of social backing. Finally what this research did is demonstrate the requirement for individualized methodologies to patient instruction and guiding in regards to abortion. Despite the extensive rate of women influenced by the obligatory counseling that goes hand in hand with abortion procedure there are no studies assessing patients and the view of the counseling process. This study sets out to research clients’ responses to a women feminist counseling approach. As indicated by Gretchen women’s feminist therapy was started in the social equality and liberation development in the 1960’s. This kind of philosophical therapeutic intervention offers rise to the focus on regularity of the clients encounter instead of casing the involvement in the context of deviance. Because of this many women clinics where abortion services are provided use a feminist counsel method of approach. To effectively gather information a qualitative questionnaire was developed which indicated that the clients were satisfied with their feminist pre-procedure abortion counseling experience, it provided a friendly atmosphere, a feeling of acceptance, knowledgeable counselors and a normal experience. Feminist counseling philosophies are women focused and are determined by the needs of the individual patient. What Gretchen research found is that in accommodating the state directing necessities counselors ought to gear each counseling session to meet the individual needs of every patient except also by specifically tending to the negative societal demeanor and political talk encompassing abortion. Thus counteracting and dis-enabling the shame connected to abortion, while giving the decision making power over to the patient. An important way to sum up the study of the abortion counseling experience is to say each session is as unique as the patient personal circumstances. Results demonstrate that the majority of patients who responded to the study were fulfilled by their counseling experiences. Taking into account the patient fulfillment reports analyzed in this study, feminist counseling philosophies that are adaptable and customer coordinated give off an impression of being significant for controlling pre-abortion counseling sessions. Another important question to address relates to the effect of the political context on combined model of attitudes. An alternative method use to investigate the effects of the political context was the consideration of abortions in two different cultures. The objective of this study is to analyze these questions, in which cultures Japan or the United States symbolic predispositions play a particularly strong or weak role and why with regards to the connection between ideology and obligation and the impacts of political setting across both societies model of attitudes. According to Sahar the United States has been exceptionally dubious since the legalization of abortion in 1973 while in contrast to abortion has been liable to minimal open verbal confrontation since its authorization in 1948.