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Does Religious Counselling on Abortion Comply with Sweden's 'Women-Friendly' Abortion Policies? : A Qualitative Exploration Among Religious Counsellors
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- Arousell, Jonna, 1985- (författare)
- Uppsala universitet,Internationell kvinno- och mödrahälsovård och migration,Department of Women’s and Children’s Health (IMCH), Uppsala University, Uppsala, 751 85, Sweden
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- Carlbom, Aje (författare)
- Malmö universitet,Institutionen för socialt arbete (SA),Faculty of Health and Society, Malmö University
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- Johnsdotter, Sara (författare)
- Malmö universitet,Institutionen för socialt arbete (SA),Faculty of Health and Society, Malmö University
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- Essén, Birgitta, 1961- (författare)
- Uppsala universitet,Internationell kvinno- och mödrahälsovård och migration,Department of Women’s and Children’s Health (IMCH), Uppsala University, Uppsala, 751 85, Sweden
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- 2019-05-30
- 2019
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: Sexuality & Culture. - : Springer. - 1095-5143 .- 1936-4822. ; 23:4, s. 1230-1249
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Abstract
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- The abortion discourse in Sweden is marked by historically liberal ideals about women's inviolable right to make autonomous reproductive decisions. However, to respond to the increase in cultural and religious pluralism building up over several decades, religious organizations have been given opportunities to provide so-called spiritual care in affiliation with Swedish hospitals since the 1980s. In this study we asked: in what ways do religious counsellors, affiliated with Swedish hospitals, construct their ideas on abortion, and how well do their ideas comply with Sweden's 'women-friendly' abortion policies? Through interviews with Protestant, Catholic, Muslim, and Buddhist religious counsellors, we wanted to empirically test the presumption underlying the decisions to grant space to religious actors in Swedish healthcare, i.e., that religious counselling serves to complement existing services. We found that it cannot be expected that religious advice on abortion will always comply with Swedish abortion law and with the women-friendly abortion policy that the Swedish state seeks to impose. When policy-makers open up possibilities for diverse norms on abortion to manifest in close affiliation with healthcare institutions, they must be aware that some religious counsellors argue that only God-and not the woman herself-can decide whether a woman can terminate a pregnancy. We argue that the findings in this study speaks to what researchers have referred to as the "diversity-equality paradox", which highlights the tension between the promotion of religious ideas on abortion on the one hand and the promotion of liberal ideas about women's reproductive freedom on the other.
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- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap -- Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences -- Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Annan samhällsvetenskap -- Tvärvetenskapliga studier inom samhällsvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Other Social Sciences -- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- Abortion
- Women's rights
- Religious counselling
- Diversity promotion
- The diversity-equality paradox
- Healthcare
- Sweden
- Hälsa och samhälle
- Health and society
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- ref (ämneskategori)
- art (ämneskategori)
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