Premarital Abortion Research Articles

DIFFERENCES IN ATTITUDES TOWARD PRE-MARITAL ABORTION IN TEENS ATTENDING HIGH SCHOOL AND MA

School is a secondary education environment. For children who have attended school, the environment that every day he entered in addition to the home environment is the school. Teenagers who have been sitting in junior high school or high school generally spend about seven hours a day in school. This means that almost a third of his time each day is spent in school. It is not surprising that the influence of school on the development of adolescent mental health is quite large. As an educational institution, which is the case with the family, the school also teaches the values and norms that apply in society. The problem of sex in adolescents often concerns parents, as well as educators, government officials, experts, and the public. Having casual sex before marriage will eventually carry risks, such as pregnancy. An unwanted pregnancy, because it is not in accordance with the demands and norms that apply in society, results in abortion as a way that is considered to solve their problems. The study aims to find out how attitudes toward pre-marital abortion differ in teens attending high school and MA. The approach used is a quantitative approach with comparative research methods. The research was conducted at Dharma Karya UT High School, Pamulang and MA Manaratul Islam, Jakarta with a sample number of 50 people, 25 high school students and 25 MA students, which were taken by random sampling technique. The data collection instrument used is the Likert model scale. Data processing and analysis techniques are performed with statistical analysis that includes Pearson's Product Moment correlation to test item validity, Alpha Cronbach to test the reliability of data collection instruments, and T-test for testing research hypotheses. The number of valid items for the attitude scale towards pre-marital abortion is 40 items. The reliability of the attitude scale towards pre-marital sex was 0.8366. Based on the T-test, the result of t-calculate (0.989) < t-table (2,021). There was no significant difference in pre-marital abortion attitudes between high school and MA. The results showed that there was no difference in attitudes towards pre-marital abortion in adolescents who attended high school and MA. This is evident from the categorization, both high school students and MA students as much as (40%) have a fairly negative attitude towards pre-marital abortion. It is recommended for further researchers to create pre-marital abortion items in the context of adolescents, in order to represent the research sample. Then it needs to be traced further, what factors can shape a teenager's positive attitude towards pre-marital abortion. So that this can be used as a preventive measure in preventing increasing moral degradation among adolescents, especially Indonesian students, related to pre-marital abortion.

Medical treatment experiences of single rural–urban migrant women who induced abortion in mainland China: a qualitative study adopting social exclusion perspective

ABSTRACT This study adopts social exclusion perspective to examine the medical treatment experience of single rural–urban migrant women who induced abortion in mainland China. A thematic analysis on the interviews with 33 migrant women and field notes is conducted. Findings reveal that the participants experienced multiple social exclusion as follows. First, their limited access to full labour rights leads to their limited medical consumption capacity and exclusion from the formal health system. Second, they lack caregivers and suffer from premarital abortion stigma and outsider discrimination. Third, the self-identity of outsiders also hinders them from receiving formal health services.

Premarital Sexuality, Abortion, and Intergenerational Dynamics in China

This article uses premarital abortion(s) as a window to examine diverse parental roles in adult unmarried daughters’ intimate lives in post-socialist China. It also addresses issues of premarital sex, premarital pregnancy, and the emergence of a dating culture. The article identifies four patterns of parent–adult daughter interactions during the decision-making process of premarital abortion: no recognizable parental role, referencing perceived parental views, consulting parents, and direct parental pressure to terminate pregnancy. The findings suggest that within the context of a mature dating culture in urban China and the prevalence of premarital sex, adult daughters have achieved considerable control over decisions about sex and intimacy. Nevertheless, many women have continued to consider parental views on their marriage and reproduction as crucial. Some women have even prioritized the preferences of their parents over those of their intimate partners because they consider intergenerational ties more enduring and reliable than ties between intimate partners.

Premarital Abortion—What is the Harm? The Responsibilisation of Women’s Pregnancy Among China’s “Privileged” Daughters

In the West, women’s safe access to abortion services is central to the debate around reproductive freedom. In China, easy access to abortion arrived hand-in-hand with the one-child policy in 1979 as part of the Party-state’s birth control programme. Based on interviews with 31 women and 11 men from the well-educated 1980s generation, and using vignettes to explore attitudes towards premarital sex and abortion in the context of an increasingly sexualized popular culture, and the acceptability of premarital sex but lack of safe sex knowledge, I illustrate a strictly moralised discourse around female sexuality, where the normalisation of abortion practice does not translate into public acceptance of premarital abortion for women. I argue that the responsibilisation of women’s pregnancy reflects persistent patriarchal values and the state’s regulatory power over women’s reproductive bodies. While the heterosexual family remains the only legitimate site for reproduction, Chinese women’s reproductive freedom is subjugated to the priority of maintaining social stability. Hence, permissiveness over premarital abortion should not be simply understood as moral approval of abortion practice, but reflects pragmatic attitudes under a restrictive regime. I further argue that the Chinese case shows that a more nuanced, contextualised approach to understanding reproductive rights is necessary.
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The Ritualisation of Abortion in Contemporary Vietnam

Induced abortion was introduced in Northern Vietnam in the 1960s as part of socialist efforts to develop and modernise Vietnamese society. With approximately two million pregnancy terminations per year, Vietnam now has the highest abortion rate in the world. This article explores how unmarried urban youths seek to cope with the experience of abortion and the suffering it entails. It is argued that while some forms of suffering are officially recognised, glorified and heroised in Vietnam, the suffering that a premarital abortion involves is surrounded by shame, stigma and denial. The ‘ethos of suffering’ that dominates Vietnamese public culture makes it difficult for youths to find resolution for the emotional turmoil and moral dilemmas that abortion experiences give rise to. In this situation, many young people turn to ritual practice, seeking help and compassion from spiritual beings and powers. Young people's reactions to abortion indicate the presence in their daily lives of spiritual orientations deriving mainly from Buddhist traditions. The paper proposes that in order to understand how reproductive events are experienced in local worlds in and beyond Vietnam, more analytical attention needs to be paid to cosmological aspects of human procreation.

Remapping the Event: Institutional Discourses and the Trauma of Rape

Previous articleNext article No AccessRemapping the Event: Institutional Discourses and the Trauma of RapeLaura HengeholdLaura Hengehold Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 26, Number 1Autumn, 2000 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/495571 Views: 124Total views on this site Citations: 22Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 2000 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Kailing Xie Premarital Abortion, What Is the Harm? The Responsibilisation of Women’s Pregnancy Among China’s ‘Privileged’ Daughters, (Apr 2021): 79–110.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1139-1_3Michael Richardson, Kyla Allison Affect and the Unsaid: Silences, Impasses, and Testimonies to Trauma, (Jul 2019): 236–253.https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108345552.014Jennifer A. Zenovich, Leda Cooks Theorizing Interracial Communication in the Former Yugoslavia, Journal of Intercultural Communication Research 47, no.44 (May 2018): 343–360.https://doi.org/10.1080/17475759.2018.1473279Kelly Underman, Paige L. Sweet, Claire Laurier Decoteau Custodial Citizenship in the Omnibus Autism Proceeding, Sociological Forum 32, no.33 (May 2017): 544–565.https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12348Erinn Cunniff Gilson Vulnerability and Victimization: Rethinking Key Concepts in Feminist Discourses on Sexual Violence, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 42, no.11 (Sep 2016): 71–98.https://doi.org/10.1086/686753Jessica Robyn Cadwallader Forgetting Rape: Trauma, Pharmaceuticals and Embodied (In)Justice, Australian Feminist Studies 31, no.8888 (Oct 2016): 125–138.https://doi.org/10.1080/08164649.2016.1224052Pratiksha Baxi Sexual Violence and Its Discontents, Annual Review of Anthropology 43, no.11 (Oct 2014): 139–154.https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102313-030247Eileen A. Dombo, Ami P. Bass The Trials and Tribulations of a Practitioner-Researcher: Challenges and Lessons Learned through Testing a Feminist-Cognitive-Relational Social Work Model of Practice, Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work 11, no.1-21-2 (Jan 2014): 43–57.https://doi.org/10.1080/15433714.2013.840177Kate Lockwood Harris Show Them a Good Time, Management Communication Quarterly 27, no.44 (Oct 2013): 568–595.https://doi.org/10.1177/0893318913506519Stephanie Bonnes Gender and Racial Stereotyping in Rape Coverage, Feminist Media Studies 13, no.22 (May 2013): 208–227.https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2011.623170Rebecca Stringer IMPRACTICAL RECONCILIATION, Australian Feminist Studies 27, no.7171 (Mar 2012): 19–36.https://doi.org/10.1080/08164649.2012.648257Gail Womersley, Anastasia Maw, Sally Swartz The Construction of Shame in Feminist Reflexive Practice and Its Manifestations in a Research Relationship, Qualitative Inquiry 17, no.99 (Nov 2011): 876–886.https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800411423205 Park Jai Young Rape in The Bluest Eye, The Color Purple, and Push: A Reflection of American Reality, Studies in English Language & Literature 37, no.22 (May 2011): 61–79.https://doi.org/10.21559/aellk.2011.37.2.004Peter D. Rush Jurisdictions of Sexual Assault: Reforming the Texts and Testimony of Rape in Australia, Feminist Legal Studies 19, no.11 (Mar 2011): 47–73.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10691-011-9170-9 Xiying Wang, Petula Sik Ying Ho Violence and Desire in Beijing, Violence Against Women 13, no.1212 (Jun 2016): 1319–1338.https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801207310802Linda G. Mills, Peggy Grauwiler, Nicole Pezold Enhancing Safety and Rehabilitation in Intimate Violence Treatments: New Perspectives, Public Health Reports 121, no.44 (Aug 2016): 363–368.https://doi.org/10.1177/003335490612100404Fiona Ross Linguistic Bearings and Testimonial Practices, Journal of Language and Politics 5, no.11 (Apr 2006): 111–124.https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.5.1.07rosAnne Wagner, Jamie Lynn Magnusson Neglected realities: exploring the impact of women’s experiences of violence on learning in sites of higher education, Gender and Education 17, no.44 (Aug 2006): 449–461.https://doi.org/10.1080/09540250500145189Kimberly Miller T-shirts, Testimony, and Truth: Memories of Violence made Visible, TEXTILE 3, no.33 (May 2015): 250–273.https://doi.org/10.2752/147597505778052468Sarah Curtis-Fawley, Kathleen Daly Gendered Violence and Restorative Justice, Violence Against Women 11, no.55 (May 2005): 603–638.https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801205274488 Kirsten Campbell Legal Memories: Sexual Assault, Memory, and International Humanitarian Law Campbell, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 28, no.11 (Jul 2015): 149–178.https://doi.org/10.1086/340908 Carine M. Mardorossian Toward a New Feminist Theory of Rape Mardorossian, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 27, no.33 (Jul 2015): 743–775.https://doi.org/10.1086/337938

Love, sex, permissiveness, and abortion: a test of alternative models.

Alternative models of premarital abortion permissiveness (PAP) are tested with a two-state sample of single college women. The first model proposes that number of times in love (Love) leads to coitus (Sex) and that coitus increases premarital sexual permissiveness (PSP), which in turn leads to greater acceptance of abortion (PAP). The second posits a causal path from Love to PSP to Sex to PSP. The data appear to be consistent with a revised third model. The paths between Love and PAP and between Love and PSP are negligible, indicating that the effects of Love on PSP and PAP are mediated by Sex. The revised model suggests that as number of times in love increases so does coital experience and that coitus has both a direct effect on PAP and an indirect effect through PSP.