There are two types of abortion counseling that is often discussed. They are pre-procedure abortion counseling and options, or crisis pregnancy, counseling. These two counseling should be distinguished as pre-procedure abortion counseling is used when women are certain that they are not continuing their pregnancy; whereas, the options counseling is offered to those women who are undecided about her options and are unsure of the necessary information to make a decision. Options counseling also deals with the emotional needs of the women as she makes a decision. As a counselor, one need specific skills to counsel women who desire to end the pregnancy, and must know what the aspects are needed to deal with in abortion counseling.
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As argued by Johnson, the manifest rationale for regulating abortion counseling is to protect women’s right to be fully informed about abortion” (Johnson, 2014). Informing women of the medical information about the fetus strategically convince women from their self-centeredness to identifying with the child. Women’s decisions are based on the representation of the fetal development through facts and by conveying the fetus-as-a child and pregnant-woman-as-mother. Counselors use terms such as unborn child or baby to describe the fetus and mother to refer to pregnant women hoping that the women go through birthing. Social bonding with the baby and the mother through the knowing of the baby’s gender or hearing of the fetal heartbeat changes the pregnant women’s opinion from abortion to childbirth. Another aid that most practitioners do is to show the mother a picture of their fetal. By informing the women that abortion, itself, is harmful, and that it causes physical problems to the female’s body also aided. One long lasting effect that the female body experience is that the cervix stretches beyond its limits in order for surgeons to expel the child. This stretching causes damage to the tissues and eventually resulting in a weak and scarred tissue, which may cause other effects if a woman decides to be pregnant again. It may cause a woman a miscarriage or to give birth premature children due to the prior decision. All this information has intimidating effect on women seeking to terminate pregnancy. As a result, women decide to continue with the pregnancy and eventually to
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As argued by Johnson, the manifest rationale for regulating abortion counseling is to protect women’s right to be fully informed about abortion” (Johnson, 2014). Informing women of the medical information about the fetus strategically convince women from their self-centeredness to identifying with the child. Women’s decisions are based on the representation of the fetal development through facts and by conveying the fetus-as-a child and pregnant-woman-as-mother. Counselors use terms such as unborn child or baby to describe the fetus and mother to refer to pregnant women hoping that the women go through birthing. Social bonding with the baby and the mother through the knowing of the baby’s gender or hearing of the fetal heartbeat changes the pregnant women’s opinion from abortion to childbirth. Another aid that most practitioners do is to show the mother a picture of their fetal. By informing the women that abortion, itself, is harmful, and that it causes physical problems to the female’s body also aided. One long lasting effect that the female body experience is that the cervix stretches beyond its limits in order for surgeons to expel the child. This stretching causes damage to the tissues and eventually resulting in a weak and scarred tissue, which may cause other effects if a woman decides to be pregnant again. It may cause a woman a miscarriage or to give birth premature children due to the prior decision. All this information has intimidating effect on women seeking to terminate pregnancy. As a result, women decide to continue with the pregnancy and eventually to