Moral dilemmas and abortion decision-making: Lessons learnt from abortion research in England and Wales.
Lesley HoggartPublished in: Global public health (2018)
This paper scrutinises the concepts of moral reasoning and personal reasoning, problematising the binary model by looking at young women's pregnancy decision-making. Data from two UK empirical studies are subjected to theoretically driven qualitative secondary analysis, and illustrative cases show how complex decision-making is characterised by an intertwining of the personal and the moral, and is thus best understood by drawing on moral relativism.