Healthcare Report: Ethical Issues and Human Rights Regarding Abortion

This report addresses the ethical issues surrounding abortion, focusing on the perspectives of pro-choice and pro-life viewpoints. It highlights the impact of unsafe abortion practices and maternal mortality, particularly in regions like the Philippines. The report emphasizes the importance of human rights, informed consent, and the need for safe abortion procedures. It also explores recommendations for creating awareness, equipping hospitals with safe instruments, and establishing committees to assess abortion cases ethically. The role of informed consent is discussed in detail, including its limitations and the significance of reliable sources for providing guidance. The report references relevant studies and WHO guidelines to support its arguments and provides a comprehensive overview of the ethical challenges in healthcare related to abortion.

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ABORTION: AN ETHICAL ISSUE

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Abortion is the issue of terminating the pregnancy either intentionally or intentionally
due to some specific reasons. In the recent time, the issue of abortion has invoked various
debates where many acknowledged sources claiming it to be unlawful act of killing an
unborn baby. According to the recent studies, it was found that in Philippines there is high
rate of maternal mortality among women arising out of unsafe abortion. Around 1000
Philippines women die every year due to unsafe abortion practices. The unsafe abortions
pose various ethical issues that affect rights of the women and unborn baby. For instance,
there are two ways of ethical side in seeing this issue of abortion that include Pro-Choice and
Pro-life. In the Pro- choice, a woman has the right to terminate the pregnancy on her will. On
other hand, the Prolife, claims unborn baby right to be born. The ban on abortions could
violate the rights of choice for women while abortion could lead to violations of the right of
unborn baby (Raj, 2018).
In the issue of abortion, various human protection rights were established that include
granting therapeutic care to the mother and fetus and ensuring the proper and appropriate
research on the topic that include review of the medical documents. In WHO, the committee
on the child rights have urged the government to decriminalize the abortions and providing
the proper equipment for the safe abortions (Sedgh, 2016). The committee of human rights
have also ensured the legal and the safe abortion for the women by ensuring the availability
of the equipment for abortion at hospital. Various steps can be taken to ensure the human
subject protections that include creating awareness regarding issue through various platforms
that include social media, public campaigns and documentary movies. The high degree of
awareness could lead to better management of the affairs. The more the woman will be
aware about issues and its legislations, the better their response would be and there would be
higher degree of positive actions towards the things (Jatlaoui, 2018).
The role, the informed consent will be playing in the issue would be helpful in giving
the target audience the right kind of advice in initiating the decision of abortion of a woman.
An informed consent will make the target person aware about the negative implications of the
decision. An informed consent will help them use the right procedure for doing the abortions.
Abortion is a very sensitive topic so it becomes important to take the right decisions from the
effective resource. The effective resource makes the target individuals to be aware about the
pros and cons of the abortion decisions. The target audience will become more vigilant about
the precaution rights that they will take steps that comprise of the highest safety measure in
initiating the surgery. It can be said that informed consent will be adequate to some extent but

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they can only be adequate if they are taken from the reliable source who keeps the knowledge
of the law and medicine at the same time. Sometimes, the person who provides the informed
consent provides it under the pressure of different kinds that include moral, physical and
other pressures (Jatlaoui, 2018).
The informed consent is helpful in achieving the advance directive regarding the issue. It
can be dome through by correct identification of the healthcare agent. Once the healthcare
agent is identified then he can take the right decision by examining the proper healthcare
documents and accordingly the decisions will be taken. The five recommendations that can
be taken in regarding to the issues of the abortion (Sedgh, 2016)-
 About being aware of the rights and ethics in the situation.
 The hospital being properly equipped with the safe instruments of operations.
 Rights are formulated to ensure that the decision of the abortion is taken without any
moral pressure.
 Organizing campaigns involving the women in the issue.
 Formulation of the committee who are able to judge the situation correctly by
analyzing properly the issue.
The issues regarding abortions have become very prominent, it becomes necessary to
ensure that the decisions regarding the abortion issue should be taken by considering
various ethical issues that include pro life and pro-choice ethics.

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