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For some time many writers and practitioners have been expressing the view that counselling prospective abortion patients is less essential than it was during the early years of the 1967 Abortion Act, given that a more mature attitude to birth control now prevails (Simma, 1977; Allen, 1981). They feel that abortion clients are simply unlucky or careless and may need no more than a little support through a stressful experience. Even a DHSS circular, published in 1977, states: “Counselling should not be unnecessarily prolonged where the doctors involved and the woman herself are in no doubt that an abortion should be performed” (DHSS, 1977).
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Clarke, L. (1987). Is Pregnancy Counselling Necessary? The Views of Camden Women. In: Karas, E. (eds) Current Issues in Clinical Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6778-3_18
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