“IT IS HER DECISION, NOT MINE” THE PROBLEM OF CHOICE IN ABORTION CONSULTATION SERVICES IN NORWAY

Since 1978, women have been granted legal rights to self-determined abortion, from which the idea of women’s right choose achieves its victory in current Norwegian abortion law. Behind this notion choice lies an assumption that perceives as subjects who should personally decide whether or not having would be proper way overcome difficult decisions on their pregnancies. Women’s is celebrated ideal concept consultation services for face abortion. Counselors and health workers I interviewed used describe professionalism work; is, create distance a woman’s decision-making process. By employing engaged listening collect ethnographic data, study explores limitations encountered with applied care practices are uncertain about This inquiry examines relations formed under conditions where individual practice. shows how choices socially bound. status subject predetermined but enacted through emotional labor performed by healthcare professionals, could affect clients’ openness self-efficacy enact choice. Emotional challenges claim neutrality was described being emotionally detached clients, emotion itself often deemed insignificant making rational decisions.