Causes and Consequences of Public Attitudes Toward Abortion: A Review and Research Agenda
- 1 December 2003
- journal article
- review article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Political Research Quarterly
- Vol. 56 (4) , 489-500
- https://doi.org/10.1177/106591290305600410
Abstract
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 for future research. We identify three such themes: Accounting for pro-life movement among mass attitudes in recent years, when the composition of the U.S. population would seem to trend in a pro-choice direction; explaining the sources of party polarization of the abortion issue; and anticipating changes in abortion attitudes which might result from public debate over human cloning.Keywords
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