Value: Service

Ethical Principle: Social workers’ primary goal is to help people in need and to address social problems

Conflict: Advocating for women who have been raped or victimized over own personal self -interest, including moral, religious and political belief. Advocating for the fetus and or the woman.

Value: Social Justice

Ethical Principle: Social workers challenge social injustice

Conflict: Criminalizing marginalized groups by threatening access to healthcare by subverting their reproductive self-governance

Value: Dignity and Worth of the Person

Ethical Principle: Social workers respect the inherent dignity and worth of the person. 

Conflict: is the dignity and worth of the pregnant person against the rights of a fetus

Value: Importance of Human Relationships

Ethical Principle: Social workers recognize the central importance of human relationships. 

Conflict: This stems from maternal autonomy being pitted against fetal rights, the dynamics of the family, partners, cultural and social norms, legal and ethical considerations, and relationships after an abortion. 

Value: Integrity

Ethical Principle: Social workers behave in a trustworthy manner 

Conflict: When ethical reasons and considerations for abortions are due to circumstances caused by fetal abnormalities, incest and rape. 

Value: Competence

Ethical Principle: Social workers practice within their areas of competence and develop and enhance their professional expertise. 

Conflict: difference of laws in state vs. state. When it is the patient vs. the provider wth limitations of access and the dilemma the provider faces when it comes to personal morality and responsibility by a professional.