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  • Public Health
  • Social Justice
  • Nursing Ethics

Background:

  • The COVID-19 pandemic and heightened awareness of racist state violence in 2020 profoundly impacted public discourse on marginalization and racism.
  • Nursing demonstrated significant commitment and politicization during the pandemic, yet faces internal reckoning regarding its history with racism and state control systems.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To argue for the adoption of an abolitionist ethics within the nursing profession.
  • To explore how nursing can contribute to abolitionist projects for health and justice.

Main Methods:

  • This article presents a theoretical argument grounded in critical analysis of social systems.
  • It examines the principles of abolitionism and their applicability to nursing practice, advocacy, and research.

Main Results:

  • Abolitionism posits that policing and prison systems perpetuate racial oppression due to their origins in enslavement and colonial rule.
  • Systemic harms require transformative approaches, not mere reforms, focusing on creating new community support structures.

Conclusions:

  • Nursing must adopt an ethics of abolitionism to effectively pursue health and justice goals.
  • The profession has a critical role in advancing abolitionist projects through collective action in advocacy, practice, and research.