Title: Abortion
Subtitle: loss and renewal in the search for identity
First published: 1997
Description: Publisher description: The debate on abortion has tended to avoid the psychological significance of an unwanted pregnancy, dominated instead by the strong emotions the subject excites. In this book Eva Pattis Zoja examines the thoughts and feelings that surround the decision to end a pregnancy, through the dreams, diary entries and reports of the women themselves. Abortion proposes the controversial thesis that although contraception is so readily available that the occurrence of unwanted pregnancy should become nil, abortion has now become a rite of passage in womanhood. While acknowledging the painful nature of the subject, the author suggests that this decision to abort as a way to development is one beyond the explanation of modern, enlightened rationalism.
Subjects: Abortion, Moral and ethical aspects, Moral and ethical aspects of Abortion, Psychological aspects, Psychological aspects of Abortion, Abortion, psychological aspects, Abortion, moral and ethical aspects, Women, Health and hygiene, Women's Health, Avortement, Aspect moral, Femmes, Santé et hygiène, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Abortion & Birth Control
LC classification: HQ767 .P3713 1997