Efficacy, Distancing, and Reconciling: Religion and Race in Americans’ Abortion Attitudes

Bruce, Tricia C.

doi:10.3390/rel11090475

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“…Inclusion of the unsure response option makes our study unique compared with previous studies like the GSS, which provides participants dichotomous response options to select from. Our approach allows participants to indicate ambiguity, ambivalence, or uncertainty in opinion, which several researchers have called for in terms of abortion attitudes research (Bruce, 2020; Hans & Kimberly, 2014; Jelen & Wilcox, 2003; Jozkowski et al, 2018; Jozkowski, Crawford et al, 2021). We found that across circumstances, over 20% of people indicated being unsure as to whether abortion should be illegal given the specific circumstance.…”

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Abortion Stigma: Attitudes Toward Abortion Responsibility, Illegal Abortion, and Perceived Punishments of “Illegal Abortion”

Jozkowski,

Mena-Meléndez,

Crawford

et al. 2023

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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We examined public opinion regarding unique aspects of abortion legality to better understand potential contexts in which stigma may occur and the extent that people (a) believe actors involved in abortion (i.e., pregnant woman, healthcare provider, man involved in the pregnancy, someone providing information about where to get an abortion, parents of a minor) should be held responsible for illegal abortion, (b) believe abortion should be illegal across different circumstances, and (c) endorse different punishments for pregnant women and healthcare providers, including variation by responsibility. An online survey was administered to 2,489 English and Spanish-speaking U.S. adults, using quota-based sampling, with post-stratification weights applied to match U.S. benchmarks. People scored healthcare providers and women more responsible than other actors. Although the majority did not support abortion being illegal for most circumstances, a substantial proportion were unsure. Additionally, “no punishment” was most frequently selected for the woman and healthcare provider. However, those who endorsed any punishment, compared with no punishment, typically indicated the pregnant woman and healthcare provider were more responsible. Our findings suggest that current laws criminalizing abortion are misaligned with public opinion and that pregnant women and healthcare providers are likely most susceptible to abortion-related stigma.

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Abortion Stigma: Attitudes Toward Abortion Responsibility, Illegal Abortion, and Perceived Punishments of “Illegal Abortion”

Jozkowski,

Mena-Meléndez,

Crawford

et al. 2023

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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“… 44 As such, the labels of pro‐abortion/anti‐abortion and pro‐choice/pro‐life may yield significantly different answers. 45 Should proaborto and antiaborto be used as translations for pro‐choice and pro‐life, there appears to be a high likelihood of data incomparability between English and Spanish versions of the survey. More research is needed for each identity label, including pilot testing, conducting cognitive interviews, and validating survey drafts for data comparability.…”

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Identifying accurate pro‐choice and pro‐life identity labels in Spanish: Social media insights and implications for comparative survey research

Valdez

Montenegro

Crawford

et al. 2022

Perspect Sexual Reproductive

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Introduction Although debate remains about the saliency and relevance of pro‐choice and pro‐life labels (as abortion belief indicators), they have been consistently used for decades to broadly designate abortion identity. However, clear labels are less apparent in other languages (e.g., Spanish). Social media, as an exploratory data science tool, can be leveraged to identify the presence and popularity of online abortion identity labels and how they are contextualized online. Purpose This study aims to determine how popularly used Spanish‐language pro‐choice and pro‐life identity labels are contextualized online. Method We used Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic models, an unsupervised natural language processing (NLP) application, to generate themes about Spanish language tweets categorized by Spanish abortion identity labels: (1) proelección (pro‐choice); (2) derecho a decidir (right to choose); (3) proaborto (pro‐abortion); (4) provida (pro‐life); (5) antiaborto (anti‐abortion); and (6) derecho a vivir (right to life). We manually reviewed themes for each identity label to assess scope. Results All six identity labels included in our analysis contained some references to abortion. However, several labels were not exclusive to abortion. Proelección (pro‐choice), for example, contained several themes related to ongoing presidential elections. Discussion and Conclusion No singular Spanish abortion identity label encapsulates abortion beliefs; however, there are several viable options. Just as the debate remains ongoing about pro‐choice and pro‐life as accurate indicators of abortion beliefs in English, we must also consider that identity is more complex than binary labels in Spanish.

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“…As debates about the Hyde Amendment are likely to intensify in the coming years, this analysis is intended to lay the groundwork for more research and to encourage the collection of more data on Americans' attitudes toward public funding of abortion. Future research should especially focus on changes in these attitudes over time; on the effects of question wording on these attitudes; on how these attitudes are shaped by other factors like gender, race, or education; and following Bruce (2020aBruce ( , 2020b, on qualitative investigations of how people think about this complex issue.…”

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Religion, Politics, and Public Funding for Abortion

Braunstein

Whitehead

Burge

2021

Scientific Study of Religion

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An abundance of research examines Americans' attitudes toward abortion legality and morality with particular attention to polarization around this issue and the influence of social movements, religious organizations, the media, and political leaders. There is a relative dearth, however, of research focusing on attitudes toward the public funding of abortion services. Using three national, random samples of American adults, we address this gap in the literature. We find that the oft-cited "bipartisan consensus" around opposition to public funding of abortion is a myth. In fact, there is more bipartisan consensus around abortion legality than abortion funding, across religious traditions. As national debates about abortion funding intensify, these findings underscore the importance of future surveys consistently measuring Americans'attitudes toward public funding of abortion, above and beyond abortion legality or morality.

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Efficacy, Distancing, and Reconciling: Religion and Race in Americans’ Abortion Attitudes

Cited by 12 publications

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Abortion Stigma: Attitudes Toward Abortion Responsibility, Illegal Abortion, and Perceived Punishments of “Illegal Abortion”

Abortion Stigma: Attitudes Toward Abortion Responsibility, Illegal Abortion, and Perceived Punishments of “Illegal Abortion”

Identifying accurate pro‐choice and pro‐life identity labels in Spanish: Social media insights and implications for comparative survey research

Religion, Politics, and Public Funding for Abortion

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