- Title
- 'Choice' in women's abortion decision-making narratives: Introducing a supportability approach
- Creator
- Mavuso, Jabulile M-J J, Chiweshe, Malvern T, Macleod, Catriona I
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/446220
- Identifier
- vital:74482
- Description
- Liberal abortion legislation emphasises pregnant persons' autonomous choices in abortion decision-making. Within psychological theories, decision-making is understood as largely individual, rational and cognitive, with various factors affecting women's1 abortion decision-making. In this study, purposively recruited from three sites in South Africa and three sites in Zimbabwe, 25 and 18 women, respectively, participated in narrative interviews which were analysed using thematic analysis and a supportability framework. Participants' narratives constructed continuation of the pregnancy as a 'non-option, abortion emerging as the only solution. Economic resources, gender norms and partnerships, and the undesirability of the pregnancy meant the pregnancy was unsupportable at micro- and macro-levels, and sometimes despite parenting being desired by the women. A supportability framework offers opportunities to understand reproductive decision-making as imbricated in the circumstances of the pregnancy which render it (un)supportable, therefore opening up or closing down particular decisions. This framework enables a necessary shift, towards systemic understandings of decision-making, and a possible reduction in abortion-related stigma.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (21 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Psychology in Society
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Psychology in Society, Mavuso, J.M.J.J., Chiweshe, M.T. and Macleod, C.I., 2020. 'Choice'in women's abortion decision-making narratives: Introducing a supportability approach. Psychology in Society, (59), pp.20-40, Psychology in Society volume 59 p. 20 2020 2309-8708
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- Rights
- Open Access
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Gender Action Forum (GENACT)
Macleod, Catriona Ida (Distinguished Professor)
SDG 05. Gender Equality
RU Department of Psychology
SDG 10. Reduced Inequalities
RU DST/NRF SARChI for Critical Studies in Sexualities and Reproductions Research (CSSR) Programme
SDG 03. Good Health and Well-Being
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