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ArticleJournal of medical ethics2025

Ethics round table: choice and autonomy in obstetrics.

Dominic Wilkinson, Safoora Teli, Claire Litchfield, Anna Madeley, Brenda Kelly, Lawrence Impey, Rebecca Ch Brown, Elselijn Kingma, Helen Lynne Turnham

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Article in Journal of medical ethics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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9 authors.

Dominic WilkinsonJohn Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK dominic.wilkinson@uehiro.ox.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3958-8633
Safoora TeliOxford Maternal and Neonatal Voices Partnership, Oxford, UK.
Claire LitchfieldJohn Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK.
Anna MadeleyFaculty of Health, Education & Society, University of Northampton, Northampton, UK.
Brenda KellyJohn Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK.
Lawrence ImpeyJohn Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK.
Rebecca Ch BrownUehiro Oxford Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8023-1092
Elselijn KingmaDepartment of Philosophy, King's College London, London, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9787-3198
Helen Lynne TurnhamJohn Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1011-2885

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Wellcome Trust 203132Wellcome Trust 226801
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Decisions about how and where they deliver their baby are extremely important to pregnant women. There are very strong ethical norms that women's autonomy should be respected, and that plans around birth should be personalised. However, there appear to be profound challenges in practice to respecting women's choices in pregnancy and labour. Choices carry risks and consequences-to the woman and her child; also potentially to her caregivers and to other women.What does it mean for women's autonomy to be respected in obstetrics? How should health professionals respond to refusals of treatment or requests for care outside normal guidelines? What are the ethical limits to autonomy? In this clinical ethics round table, service users, midwives, obstetricians, philosophers and ethicists respond to two hypothetical cases drawn from real-life scenarios.

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Choice BehaviorDecision MakingObstetricsPersonal AutonomyPregnant PeopleFemaleHumansPregnancyDecision MakingEthics- MedicalInformed ConsentObstetricsPersonal Autonomy

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PMID39613315
PMCPMC12418576

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