Bioethical dilemmas in the medical care of pregnant teenagers

Authors

  • Edison Vitório de Souza Júnior
  • Victor Santana Barbosa da Silva
  • Yan Assis Lozado
  • Eliane dos Santos Bomfim
  • Jeorgia Pereira Alves
  • Eduardo Nagib Boery
  • Rita Narriman Silva de Oliveira Boery

Abstract

The aim of this study is to identify and to discuss some bioethical aspects involved in medical assistance to pregnant teenagers. Through Integrative Review, it was selected two articles tackling the same chosen theme, contained in the Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde (Virtual Health Library) and published between 2010 and 2015. Based on researches, there was a significant decrease in the number of births among adolescents in the last five years. However, the indices are still worrying. As a result, it was found two alternatives in the relationship between doctor and pregnant teenagers: medical ethics and induced abortion, it having the autonomy and not-malfeasance as bioethical dilemmas. The Bioethics provides systematic reflections in the sense of involving the professionals of health and education in sexual and reproductive health and providing assistance tothe young woman, in which preventive measures of an unwanted pregnancy avoid the Incidence of unsafe abortion and, consequently, avoid them to look for clandestine services

Keywords:

Adolescent. Bioethics. Pregnancy in adolescence. Consequence analysis. Women’s health.
Vol. 26 No. 1 (2018): Rev. bioét. (Impr.). 2018; 26 (1)

Published:

2018-03-20

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Souza Júnior EV de, da Silva VSB, Lozado YA, Bomfim E dos S, Alves JP, Boery EN, et al. Bioethical dilemmas in the medical care of pregnant teenagers. Rev. bioét.(Impr.). [Internet]. 2018 Mar. 20 [cited 2024 May 11];26(1). Available from: https://revistabioetica.cfm.org.br/revista_bioetica/article/view/1075