Teen Abortion

National Abortion Federation (2010) reported that American women between the ages of 15 and 19 account for about 19% of all abortions and older teenagers has the highest abortion rates. Recently, the abortion debate on autonomy, rights and the way in which society views the reason for abortion. Health professionals have an ethical obligation to against a non-reasonable for abortion but still have rights to provide abortion in cases where fetal abnormality has been detected following prenatal diagnosis (McGuinness, 2009). Therefore, it is crucial that health professionals understand the basic of the abortion debate, from the perspective of their own professions, a whole society and the woman who may have had or is considering an abortion or has been affected by this issue. The idea of abortion relates with many complicating issues such as sex, morals, and choices, thus, it is important to explore these many issues based on a true story to fully understand the ethical considerations that surround abortion dilemmas from a teenager who have had abortion. The case involved in this paper is considered in a scope of unprotected sex, a lack of self-control, and religious value and emphasizing the reasonable aspects of abortion in a perspective of a teenager involved in abortion. The fact of the true issue of abortion is the outcome of the life of the mother and the unborn child if it had not been terminated.

Case: A 19-year-old girl, who is a closed friend of mine, consulted me with a complaint of nausea and vomiting. She confessed she had been sexually active for several months and had not taken any precaution. Her period has been missing for over 3 months. I bought a home pregnancy tests for her and it showed that she is pregnant, a...

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