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A crisis pregnancy center (CPC) is a type of nonprofit organization established to counsel pregnant women against having an abortion. [3] [4] [5] CPCs provide peer counseling related to abortion, pregnancy, and childbirth, and they may offer non-medical services such as financial assistance, child-rearing resources, and adoption referrals. [6]
Therapeutic privilege refers to the decision of a healthcare practitioner to withhold information from a patient when there is a justified belief that disclosure may cause serious mental or physical harm to them. [1] As of 2022, this defence is permissible in countries such as Australia, Canada, England, Netherlands and Wales as an exception to ...
Specific rights advocated. Advocates endorse a pregnant patient's right to participate in medical decisions that may affect her well-being and that of her child. Specifically, these include but are not limited to the right to know the effects and risks to both the woman and the child associated with a drug or procedure, as well as the right to ...
Maternal–fetal conflict. Maternal-fetal conflict, also known as obstetric conflict, occurs when a pregnant woman’s (maternal) interests conflict with the interests of the fetus. Legal and ethical considerations involving women's rights and the rights of the fetus as a patient and future child, have become more complicated with advances in ...
Informed consent is a principle in medical ethics, medical law, media studies, and other fields, that a person must have sufficient information and understanding before making decisions about accepting risk, such as their medical care. Pertinent information may include risks and benefits of treatments, alternative treatments, the patient's role ...
A CPC in Lincoln, Nebraska (foreground) intentionally located across the street [1] from an abortion clinic (background). A crisis pregnancy center (CPC), sometimes called a pregnancy resource center (PRC) [2] or a pro-life pregnancy center, [3] [4] is a type of nonprofit organization established by anti-abortion groups primarily to persuade pregnant women not to have an abortion.
Pregnant patients' rights or Pregnant women's rights refers to the choices and legal rights available to a woman experiencing pregnancy or childbirth.Specifically those under medical care within a medical establishment or those under the care of a medical professional regardless of location ( under care of paramedics at home, family doctor via phone, etc. ).
Wrongful birth. Wrongful birth is a legal cause of action in some common law countries in which the parents of a congenitally diseased child claim that their doctor failed to properly warn of their risk of conceiving or giving birth to a child with serious genetic or congenital abnormalities. [1] Thus, the plaintiffs claim, the defendant ...