Abortion research: Attitudes, sexual behavior, and problems in a community college population

Adolescent Men's Attitudes in Relation to Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes: A Systematic Review of the Literature From 1980–2009

“…With respect to the relationship between religiosity and pregnancy outcomes, a number of studies on adolescents in the United States and Europe have noted a negative association between religiosity and support for abortion [18,25,26,29,[46][47][48]56,57]. This is consistent with evidence in the adult population [46].…”

“…However, another large-scale U.S. survey [29] found that traditional masculinity defined in terms of Male Role Norms Inventory [79] and an abbreviated version of Brannon's Masculinity Scale [80] was not significantly related to adolescent males' belief that a woman should refrain from terminating her pregnancy when her partner objected. Finally, an analysis by gender (male versus female) on adolescents' more general approval of abortion is not available in every study but, where applicable, the views of adolescent men and women appear to be more similar than dissimilar [18,26,39,46,47,48,81; See reference 53 as an exception].…”

“…The majority of women and men disagreed with the statement that abortion is strictly a woman's issue (Continued) Respondents who indicated approval of abortion scored significantly higher on the Abortion Knowledge Test (greatest significance) and tended to be older, less religious, and non-Catholic compared with those who disapproved of abortion. No significant gender differences were found Abortion research: Attitudes, sexual behavior, and problems in a community college population [47] Sampling strategy: Convenience sample of in one community college (variety of classes) in the Boston area Data collection: Self-administered questionnaire N ¼ 150 (80 females; 70 males) Ethnicity: Mostly white and Catholic SES: Middle and lower middle class Males were slightly more likely to be pro-abortion. When anti-abortion students were compared with proabortion students, they had more religiosity, believed that abortion was murder, were more punitive toward the female and medical personnel involved, were less sexually active, and less likely to know someone who had an abortion.…”

The Relationship Among Sexual Attitudes, Sexual Fantasy, and Religiosity

“…Considering paranormal beliefs have been associated with liberal sexual behavior (Bryan & Freed, 1993; Farmer et al, 2009), it is not surprising that paranormal beliefs were associated with more liberal sexual attitudes. It is perhaps the case that individuals with high levels of paranormal belief are more likely to view expression of sexuality, rather than restriction, to be an important part of their religious faith (Puttick, 1997).…”

Terminating a Child’s Life? Religious, Moral, Cognitive, and Emotional Factors Underlying Non-Acceptance of Child Euthanasia

“…However, abortion differs from child euthanasia. The religious opposition to the former may reflect, at least indirectly, some additional punitive tendency toward sexually liberal women when perceived as unwilling to assume their responsibilities with regard to the consequences of their sexual acts (see, e.g., Bryan & Freed, 1993). …”