4. Trust and Confidentiality
Women expressed concerns over doctors, especially family medicine specialists’ and other primary healthcare workers’ approach toward confidentiality over their sexual and reproductive status and history, and also expressed distrust vis-à-vis formal healthcare workers’ knowledge, skills and attitude toward medical ethics of abortion. The participants also specifically highlighted concerns related to centralized permanent healthcare records and healthcare workers’ universal access to their healthcare records without requiring an explicit consent. Email excerpts below epitomize these shared concerns among different women: