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1942/2011 - Health professionals’ representations and experiences with legal and illegal abortion in two maternity-hospitals in Salvador da Bahia
Representações e experiências sobre aborto legal e ilegal dos ginecologistas-obstetras trabalhando em dois Hospitais maternidade de Salvador da Bahia

Author:

• Silvia De Zordo - De Zordo, S. - London, UK, SE14 6NW , Outro País/Another Country - Goldsmiths - University of London - Dept. of Anthropology - <ans01sd@gold.ac.uk>

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Abstract:

The objective of this qualitative study, carried out in two maternity-hospitals in Salvador da Bahia, was to investigate health professionals’ and particularly obstetricians-gynecologists’ experience and representations of legal abortion, examined in contrast with their representations and experience with illegal abortion. A questionnaire and semi-structured interviews were conducted with 25 health professionals (13 obstetricians-gynecologists) in a hospital providing legal abortion (P) and with 20 health professionals (9 obstetricians-gynecologists) in another hospital that does not provide this service (F). The factors that influence most obstetricians-gynecologists’ experience and representations of abortion and explain the high rate of conscientious objection at Hospital P were: 1- abortion criminalization and the fear of being denounced; 2- abortion stigmatization by certain religious groups and by physicians themselves; 3- medical training and the lack of good training in the epidemiology of maternal morbidity-mortality and abortion; 4-representations of gender relations. The main factors associated with liberal attitudes were: age – below 30 and above 45 years of age – experience with high maternal mortality rates due to abortion and experience with legal abortion.

Keywords:

Abortion Stigma Conscientious objection

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De Zordo, S.. Health professionals’ representations and experiences with legal and illegal abortion in two maternity-hospitals in Salvador da Bahia. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2012/Feb). [Citado em 22/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/health-professionals-representations-and-experiences-with-legal-and-illegal-abortion-in-two-maternityhospitals-in-salvador-da-bahia/9340?id=9340&id=9340



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