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YEAR: 2004

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Emergency contraception and morality: reflections of health care workers and

clients.

AUTHORS

Simonds W; Ellertson C

SOURCE

Social Science and Medicine. 2004 Apr;58(7):1285-1297.

ABSTRACT

In this study, we explore the retrospective reports of 21 US Planned Parenthood clients about their use of emergency

contraception pills (ECPs) and the views of ten Planned Parenthood health care workers at two clinics about

providing ECPs. We elucidate the sociological phenomena that frame emergency contraception usage: cultural

ideology about contraception, sexuality, unintended pregnancy, and abortion. We focus on the ways in which

interactions between health care workers and clients both mediate and reinforce such cultural ideology. Our research

indicates that the distinctions between fertilization and pregnancy, between contraception and abortion, between

responsible and irresponsible procreative behavior, are not hard and fast boundaries upon which everyone agrees.

We illuminate the dividing lines and continuities our participants invoked, affirmed, and questioned when

contemplating the continuum from potential fertility to realized (and unwanted) pregnancy. (PubHealth.info Document

ID: CONT1T 541-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Emergency contraception and morality: reflections of health

care workers and clients.", is(are) Simonds W; Ellertson C. The source of this article is "Social Science and

Medicine. 2004 Apr;58(7):1285-1297.". This article was published in 2004 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info®

Document ID: CONT1T 541-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 541

This article is peer-reviewed.

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