Abortion: between moral decision and clinical practice

Abstract

Introduction. In the present, abortion is a polarizing and divisive issue that raises discussions about ethical and medical problem. Actually, the abortion ethics became more emphasized with the appearance of the question “When does a human life begin?” Despite of different medical achievements and the evolving of ethics, abortion remains a multilateral topic. Aim of the study. The analysis of abortion from a bioethical perspective for facilitating the multilateral approach of the life`s beginning and interruption.Materials and methods. WHO`s guideline about safe abortion, legislative acts of the Republic of Moldova about women`s health protection, statistical year-books, different sources from bioethical, social and ethical areas, own sociological analyzes based on different observations. Results. Over time, the subject of abortion has evaluated in parallel with morality and social traditions strongly connected with different culture forms. Also have appeared various specialized structures in public health system, which deal with the elaboration of the new, more efficient methods of abortion. Thereby now, we have a medical comfort of abortion, feticide being a common practice that is considered a banal, accessible medical procedure. In parallel, the ethical approach of this problem does not have a clear answer, so the discussions on the abortion topic continues in condition of the new technological society. Conclusions. 1. The women`s right to abortion results from their bodily autonomy, considered to be a fundamental human right, but the abortion cannot be a norm in our society, it continues to be an unsolved, difficult ethical problem; 2. Bioethics is looking for optimal ways of avoiding the moral conflicts and gives different logical recommendations that correspond with its principles; so bioethics carries out its main function of protecting the human`s life, in any form of its manifestation; 3. In the present day, it becomes necessary to have an interdisciplinary approach of the abortion problem, with the aid of bioethics.