title: Abortion: the nurse's responsibilities.
abstract: Previous Royal College of Nursing guidance in relation to nurses and abortion was issued in December 1980. Since then, there have been changes in the law and new drugs for use in the termination of pregnancy have become available. The RCN has received requests for guidance from nurses in relation to their legal and moral position in caring for women who are undergoing a termination of pregnancy.
mesh_terms: D000028:Abortion, Induced / Q000451:nursing*; D000029:Abortion, Legal; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009014:Morals; D011247:Pregnancy; D012956:Societies, Nursing; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom