Despite being a defining issue in the culture war, the political psychology of abortion
attitudes remains poorly understood. We address this oversight by reviewing existing …

Rather unexpectedly, prior work has failed to find consistent gender differences in public
support for legal abortion. Given that gender differences in public opinion emerge for a wide …

For more than two decades, legal abortion has been the subject of heated political debate
and adversarial social movement activity; however, national polls have shown little change …

Despite the interest-group perspective that women should be more likely than men to
support legal abortion, much research finds that women and men hold similar views on this …

Prior research indicates religious variables and moral attitudes toward sexuality powerfully
affect abortion attitudes. This study addresses why religious variables are so influential for …

Although abortion became legal four decades ago, Americans remain staunchly divided
over its acceptability. While researchers have been interested in the factors shaping abortion …

Public attitudes toward abortion have long been an issue in American political debates.
Theoretical understanding of influences on abortion attitudes may assist researchers in …

This article provides a critical review of empirical research on attitudes toward abortion
among mass publics in the United States, with a view toward suggesting promising avenues …

This study attempts to test Reiss' hypotheses of the effects of social and cultural variables on
abortion attitudes using NORC General Social Survey data 1972–1998. The analysis was …

This paper reports three subtantive findings from national survey data concerning the
relationship between legal approval and moral concern in the abortion dispute. First, the …