When are politicians willing to liberalize abortion laws? While restricted access to legal abor-
tion affects millions of women around the world, there is relatively little understanding of the …

Much social science research suggests that men and women have similar abortion policy
preferences. But this inference may be incorrect because studies have focused on …

The number and variety of state policies regulating abortion each year is increasing.
Opponents of abortion adopted a strategy of “legal but inaccessible” that has resulted in the …

Scholars of “morality policies” have often assumed a signature characteristic of such policies
is that advocates will frame them as clashes between fundamental moral and religious …

Relative to neighboring countries, Zambia has among the most progressive abortion
policies, but numerous sociopolitical constraints inhibit knowledge of pregnancy termination …

Debates around abortion typically invoke religion and politics but there is no causal
evidence of the impact of politician religion on abortion. Leveraging quasi-random variation …

This research examines the politics of funding abortions for low-income women in the
American states. State policies on abortion funding reflected the relative strength of citizen …

In this exploratory study of mass opinion, the following question is addressed: Given the
importance of gender role attitudes in elite-level discourse on abortion, why is the …

Past research has shown that elected officials are generally responsive to the public's
attitudes on policy, particularly in domains such as morality policy. But will this …

Over the past decades, abortion has been among the most controversial topics discussed in
American politics. Despite the long-running debates, existing studies have focused heavily …