- Title
- Contradictions in womxn’s experiences of pre-abortion counselling in South Africa: Implications for client‐centred practice
- Creator
- Mavuso, Jabulile M-J J, Macleod, Catriona I
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/443638
- Identifier
- vital:74140
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1111/nin.12330"
- Description
- Pre-abortion counselling may play a key role in abortion seekers’ understanding of their decision to terminate a pregnancy and the subsequent emotions that they feel. In this paper, we report on a study conducted in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa concerning womxn's experiences of the pre-abortion counselling offered as part of the implementation of the Choice of Termination Act that governs the provision of legal abortion in the country. Using a narrative-discursive lens, the analysis revealed four micro-narratives in which participants appreciated non-directive and empathic counselling, as well as being provided with information. They also indicated that the counselling was upsetting and hurtful, particularly when providers drew on the awfulisation of abortion discourse to suggest that abortion leads to terrible consequences, and foetal personhood discourse to intimate that terminating the pregnancy is wrong and other alternatives (adoption, parenting) are better. The connection between these broadly positive and negative responses may lie in the dominance of anti-abortion discourses coupled with the powerful positioning of healthcare providers as experts. The attendant disempowerment of clients within the health clinic setting may constrain pregnant people's ability to question such ‘expert’ information. The implications for feminist client-centred pre-abortion counselling are discussed.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (9 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Nursing Inquiry, Mavuso, J.M.J.J. and Macleod, C.I., 2020. Contradictions in womxn’s experiences of pre‐abortion counselling in South Africa: Implications for client-centred practice. Nursing Inquiry, 27(2), p.e12330, Nursing Inquiry volume 27 number 2 p.e. 12330 2020 1440-1800
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Gender Action Forum (GENACT)
Macleod, Catriona Ida (Distinguished Professor)
SDG 05. Gender Equality
RU Department of Psychology
RU DST/NRF SARChI for Critical Studies in Sexualities and Reproductions Research (CSSR) Programme
SDG 10. Reduced Inequalities
SDG 03. Good Health and Well-Being
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