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Legal and Ethical Issues in Evaluating Abortion Services

L. E. Ferris

Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4N 3M5, lef{at}ices.on.ca

When evaluation studies are conducted in a sensitive area, ethical and legal implications are bound to challenge evaluators. All too often, evaluators must deal with competing responsibilities in evaluating these programs or services. This article focuses on several ethical and legal issues that arose during an evaluation of abortion services. We discuss how we developed decision rules and considered trade-offs in dealing with these ethical and legal issues so that rational and objective decisions could be reached. We place this discussion within the context of balancing the utility and propriety evaluation standards with respect to obtaining true informed consent and protecting the privacy and confidentiality of data when evaluating abortion services. The article concludes with recommendations concerning the evaluation of abortion services.

American Journal of Evaluation, Vol. 21, No. 3, 329-340 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/109821400002100304
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