Valerie DeFillipo, director of the FP2020 taskforce, said there was a need for better indicators to measure informed choice, autonomy and the extent to which family planning programmes are being implemented in accordance with human rights principles.
Whether bioethicists' notion of autonomy counts as Kantian or Millian, and regardless of either the exact meaning of autonomy or the extent to which autonomy is good for us, grounding informed consent in autonomy turns out to be difficult.
It may do so even if the project of grounding informed consent in autonomy, and all other attempts to justify natural informed consent rights, founder.
One answer to the attack argues that informed consent is a patient's right, not her duty (Beauchamp and Childress 2008, 105, 107), and that, since informed consent serves autonomy, it ought to be autonomously waiveable (Beauchamp and Childress 2008, 106).
12 16 Furthermore, at its core, ACP is grounded in Western bioethics, and places a high value on patient autonomy, informed decision-making and truth telling.
Challenging the knowledge and beliefs of clients with regards to HIV is a sign of respect for her and renders her decisions to be truly well informed (strengthening her autonomy) [ 24].
The API identifies dimensions of autonomy by measuring patients' preferences for making medical decisions (decision-making subscale) and their desire to be informed (information-seeking subscale).
However, less attention has been paid to how professional autonomy is informed by teachers' knowledge relations, and to collective, rather than individual, aspects of teachers' autonomy.
As Rhodes and Schwab et al. argued, the research ethics traditionally focus on autonomy and informed consent because they were in response to clinical trials which may expose subjects to possibly serious harm.
