Legal & ethical issues

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Hi there

I was hoping I could get some assistance for an assignment, as to what topics I could use related to legal and ethical issues in childbearing families?

thanks

Kylie

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Specializes in Community, OB, Nursery.

Domestic violence

Elective primary c/section

Routine (meaning non-urgent) labor induction/augmentation

Those are just a few I can think of. I'm sure other posters will have more.

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Specializes in L&D.

Surrogate pregnancy and selective reduction of high order multiples are the first two to come to my mind.

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Specializes in Community, OB, Nursery.

Substance abuse during pregnancy

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Specializes in Hospital Education Coordinator.

who has custody? What if the Mom is unmarried and underage and the child is ill? What if the parents are unmarried and not living together but there is no official court paper declaring custody? What situations could arise? Believe me, the ED nurses have run into this lots of times.

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Paternity determination (DNA testing)

Sterilization (tubal, hysterectomy, vasectomy)

How old is too old to have a baby?

Sperm and egg donation

Birth control

Adoption/relinquishment

rape, trauma, domestic violence, intimate partner violence

gay and lesbian adoption

single parenthood

surrogate motherhood

stillborn

fetal demise

postpartum depression and later maternal behavior manifestations

STIs

female circumcision

breast vs. bottle feeding

health research with pediatric and female subjects

technology needed to keep extremely premature infants alive

Tuskeegee Syphilis Study

I teach an ethical issues in women's health class, and jsut pulled some topics form the syllabus. Hope this helps!

:D

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Specializes in Midwifery.

Informed consent/choice

Risk during pregnancy and birth (i.e whose risk, who defines it, who owns it)

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Specializes in Community, OB, Nursery.

Routine infant circumcision, male or female, though I think the current preferred term for women is 'female genital cutting,' as it is broader and includes more procedures than just 'circumcision' which would be removal of the clitoral hood.

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Thank you to everyone who answered it was very helpful to get your help, thank you so much :yeah:

All the best to you all :bow:

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