Person-Centered Pregnancy Options Counseling

Pregnancy options counseling is a person-centered process through which one provides information regarding management options in continuing a pregnancy or not and seeks to understand a patient's values, beliefs, preferences, concerns, and ambivalence regarding pregnancy. In practice, upholding comprehensive person-centered pregnancy options counseling is a nuanced process. A health care professional's ability to enact these ethical principles in their practice may be limited by legal restrictions or institutional culture or both; however, they can use person-centered and shared decision-making frameworks to understand and support their patients. The Society for Family Planning endorses this Committee Statement.