RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Letters to the Editor
JF Pediatrics
JO Pediatrics
FD American Academy of Pediatrics
SP 1192
OP 1193
VO 65
IS 6
A1 Diamond, Eugene F.
YR 1980
UL http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/65/6/1192.4.abstract
AB I am writing with regard to the statement by the Committee on Adolescence "Pregnancy and Abortion Counseling" (Pediatrics 63:920, 1979). While this statement is, in many ways, forthright and sensitive, it nevertheless tends to perpetuate some of the unfortunate fallacies which surround a much controverted issue. First of all it identifies abortion as a "sexual matter." While it is true that sexual activity leads to pregnancy which may, in turn, lead to a request for abortion, the controversies regarding abortion are not merely sexual or even primarily sexual.