Problem of Abortion Medical Care as Support for “Mother”: From Interviews with Japanese Women Who Experienced Abortion Treatment

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  • 「お母さん」支援としての中絶ケアの問題性——人工妊娠中絶の医療・看護の患者経験から——
  • 「お母さん」支援としての中絶ケアの問題性 : 人工妊娠中絶の医療・看護の患者経験から
  • 「 オカアサン 」 シエン ト シテ ノ チュウゼツ ケア ノ モンダイセイ : ジンコウ ニンシン チュウゼツ ノ イリョウ ・ カンゴ ノ カンジャ ケイケン カラ

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<p>Japanese medical staff of obstetrics and gynecology assume it to be an axiom that a fetus is “Aka chan” (baby) who needs love and a pregnant woman is a “mother”. As a result, abortion is taken as an attack on that axiom. Furthermore, if women who underwent an abortion do not express remorse over it, they are judged as women of low moral standard. In this study, we discuss two points based on interviews with Japanese women who experienced abortion treatment. The aforementioned viewpoint of the fetus and pregnancy, however, has been historically constructed through medicalization of pregnancy. “Baby”–“Mother” feelings in pregnancy are not an obviosity. And the other point, what is “low moral” abortion.</p>

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