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Interactive Workshop

Values and Ethics

Session: Ethical Issues in Abortion Care: When Legal Restrictions Conflict with Ethical Obligations

Ethical Issues in Abortion Care: When Legal Restrictions Conflict With Ethical Obligations

Friday, October 25, 2024
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CT
Location: KC Convention Center, Room 2503B
Earn 1 CE Hour
After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, many states enacted laws restricting access to abortion. This workshop will provide social work educators a framework to help students manage ethical issues arising from conflicts between their ethical duty to respect client self-determination and laws that restrict access to abortion care.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Describe how laws prohibiting or restricting abortion affect social workers who may be asked by clients to assist with access to abortion care inside or outside their states.
  2. Engage students in discussions of ways that health and social disparities affect access to abortion care.
  3. Provide social work students with a framework for managing ethical dilemmas when their ethical obligations regarding informed consent, self-determination, and access to service conflict with laws that restrict or prohibit abortion care.