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

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 …

State governments in the US continue to pass legislation restricting access to abortion,
suggesting that public opinion supports increased restriction. Research assessing the extent …

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 …

Americans disagree on legal abortion now about as much as they did in the 1970s, but their
attitudes now sort much more according to political identity. Differences of opinion by …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

Anti-abortion legislation in the United States exploits misinformation and ignores medical
definitions to curtail access to essential healthcare. Little is known about how individuals …