Legacy Theses and Dissertations (1940-2009)
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This collection gathers digitized University of Houston theses and dissertations dating from 1940.
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Item An inquiry into the racial aspect of abortion(1988) Vaughan, Shelton M.; Lence, Ross M.; Lutz, Donald S.Abortion has a racial aspect which is acknowledged by both its supporters and its opponents. Statistically, the abortion rate among racial minorities is much higher than that among whites. This has led some minorities to charge that abortion is racial "genocide." They allege that minorities are particularly targeted by the family planning establishment based on racist motives. In contrast, the family planning postilion promotes abortion freedom for minorities as a service to them, considering their special needs, and as a right which they should share equally with whites. Genocide argument proponents, including both blacks and Hispanics, argue that the family planning agenda has had racist motives from its inception, and should therefore be opposed. The implications of the racial aspect of abortion offer insight into the abortion debate, and demonstrate how abortion policy affects the fundamentals of American political thought.Item Determination of essential content as the basis for development of a curriculum model on care of the induced abortion patient for baccalaureate nursing faculty(1982) Olson, Marteen L.; Evans, Dale W.; Buckner, William P., Jr.; Holcomb, J. David; Rosenfeld, BernardIn the late 1960s and early 1970s abortion legislation became less restrictive allowing greater numbers of women the option of abortion. Health professionals have had few guidelines and limited training in providing services for these women. Nursing faculty have had to deal with significant social change on both a personal and professional basis. Though legislation has become more restrictive in the 1980s, there are still at least one million abortions annually in the United States (Henshaw, 1982, p. 5). Certainly the nursing care of these women needed to be addressed schools of nursing. This research study was designed to identify, delineate, and develop content for baccalaureate nursing students on the care of the abortion patient.Item Hospitals' abortion policies : Impact and innovation(1974) Kemp, Kathleen Anne; Brady, David W.; Anderson, James E., II; Chafetz, Janet SaltzmanSixty-eight (68) decision-makers were interviewed in thirty-six (36) general hospitals in Harris County, Texas, one year after the Supreme Court's abortion decision (Roe v. Wade) to determine what impact the decision had on hospitals abortion policies. Hospitals' pre-Roe and post-Roe policies were measured on a 7-point scale. The mean policy position had shifted two points toward greater permissiveness after the abortion decision. Both economic variables (staff-bed ratio and occupancy rate) and decision-maker variables (opinion of the decision and opinion of the Court) were related to impact or policy change. Post-Roe policy positions viere viewed as measures of innovation. Both economic and decision-maker variables were found to be related to innovation. These variables were not significantly intercorrelated. Consequently, a "causal" model of two variables independently related to impact and innovation was indicated.