I'm Pro Choice but I think it needs to address both side of issues
Question Description
Case Studies:
Abortion Rights and/or Wrongs
By Tarris Rosell, PhD, DMin
Kate is a 17 years old patient, unmarried and 8 weeks pregnant. She is a rather remarkable girl
in that she lives independently while still a senior in a high school. She tells you that she was an
adoptee given back to foster care, and then abused sexually and physically in that system. She
is now an emancipated minor who works 30 hours per week at a service industry job while also
earning a 4.0 GPA in school, ranking in the top 10% of her class. She is college-bound, with a
full-ride scholarship for pre-med undergraduate studies at a prestigious university.
Kate has absolutely no family support, and the former boyfriend who is the father of her unborn
child/fetus simply disappeared upon learning of the pregnancy. Kate has suffered from
depression due to her upbringing and past abuse. Your patient is scared, uninsured, and says
she doesn’t want to be pregnant or a mom (“Perhaps someday, but not now!”). She rejects the
adoption option, based on her own experience growing up, and requests abortion only, at this
hospital where she has always received medical care.”
Questions for discussion
1. Your faith-based health care system rejects elective abortion option. What ought to be done
for Kate? And by whom?
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