Differences in abortion attitudes by policy context and between men and women in the World Values Survey

D Loll, KS Hall - Women & health, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
We explored whether abortion attitudes differed by respondents' sex and country-level
abortion policy context. Data were collected between 2010 and 2014 from 69,901 …

Opinions about abortion among reproductive-age women in Ohio

MH Smith, AN Turner, P Chakraborty, RB Hood… - Sexuality Research and …, 2021 - Springer
Introduction Most studies investigating abortion attitudes use nationally representative data,
leaving a need for studies of variation within a state. This study investigates abortion opinion …

Cross-cultural attitudes toward abortion: Greeks versus Americans

SJ Bahr, AC Marcos - Journal of Family Issues, 2003 - journals.sagepub.com
Using data from 1,494 Greeks and 1,993 Americans, this study finds that social abortion
attitudes are a separate dimension from physical abortion attitudes. According to our …

Examining public opinion about abortion: a mixed‐methods systematic review of research over the last 15 years

A Adamczyk, C Kim, L Dillon - Sociological Inquiry, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Although abortion became legal four decades ago, Americans remain staunchly divided
over its acceptability. While researchers have been interested in the factors shaping abortion …

Alignment of state-level policies and public attitudes towards abortion legality and government restrictions on abortion in the United States

AAJ Scoglio, SS Nayak - Social Science & Medicine, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Contextual factors can shape public opinion towards abortion. We investigated
the association between the state-level abortion legislative climate and individual attitudes …

Abortion attitudes among South Africans: findings from the 2013 social attitudes survey

EA Mosley, EJ King, AJ Schulz, LH Harris… - Culture, health & …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Abortion is legal in South Africa, but over half of abortions remain unsafe there. Evidence
suggests women who are (Black) African, of lower socioeconomic status, living with HIV, or …

Examining abortion attitudes in the context of gestational age

BL Crawford, KJ LaRoche… - Social Science …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objective The aim of this study is to examine how situational abortion attitudes differ when
including additional context related to the gestational age of the pregnancy. Method …

Complexity in attitudes toward abortion access: results from two studies

KN Jozkowski, BL Crawford, ME Hunt - Sexuality Research and Social …, 2018 - Springer
State governments in the US continue to pass legislation restricting access to abortion,
suggesting that public opinion supports increased restriction. Research assessing the extent …

Gender and abortion attitudes: Religiosity as a suppressor variable

SE Barkan - Public Opinion Quarterly, 2014 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Individual changes in abortion knowledge and attitudes

T Kim, JR Steinberg - Social Science & Medicine, 2023 - Elsevier
Rationale Policymakers need to know the abortion attitudes of those they represent. In
addition, inaccurate knowledge of or negative attitudes toward abortion may lead to more …