Knowledge and Sentiments of Roe v. Wade in the Wake of Justice Kavanaugh’s Nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court

Crawford, Brandon L.; Turner, Ronna C.; Lo, Wen‐Juo

doi:10.1007/s13178-019-00392-2

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“…Our findings seem consistent with research indicating that people are generally in favor of upholding the decision in Roe v. Wade (Bowman and Sims 2017; Jozkowski et al. 2020). However, it is unclear whether people's attitudes align with the decision in Roe v. Wade or whether the decision itself was made to align with people's attitudes.…”

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“…That is, there was more support for early abortion independent of circumstance and far less support for later abortion in general, with the exception of certain situations, such as life endangerment. Our findings seem consistent with research indicating that people are generally in favor of upholding the decision in Roe v. Wade (Bowman and Sims 2017;Jozkowski et al 2020). However, it is unclear whether people's attitudes align with the decision in Roe v. Wade or whether the decision itself was made to align with people's attitudes.…”

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Examining abortion attitudes in the context of gestational age

Crawford

LaRoche

2022

Social Science Quarterly

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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 Ordinary Least Squares Regression models predicting abortion attitudes across four different sets of abortion attitude questions, using data collected from an online panel weighted to match U.S. benchmarks. Results Later gestational ages are associated with less support for abortion. Although there is some variation in the amount that support decreases across different socio‐demographic groups, the predictors of abortion attitudes remain relatively stable across gestational ages. Abortion attitudes questions with no reference to weeks' gestation appear to be the most similar to questions referencing early weeks' gestation. Conclusion When answering abortion attitude questions that do not include any reference to weeks' gestation, respondents may be more likely to think about abortion early in pregnancy. Including references to weeks' gestation may provide a more nuanced and complete understanding of abortion attitudes.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Examining abortion attitudes in the context of gestational age

Crawford

LaRoche

2022

Social Science Quarterly

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“…Yet, those who do not strongly associate with theoretically extreme positions on abortion may be weighing a multitude of conflicting patterns that drive the complexity of their belief systems. These findings also support a growing body of work that argues that the complexity of abortion, as a medical procedure, transcends belief systems beyond the pro-choice/pro-life dichotomy [ 2 , 3 , 5 , 30 ].…”

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confidence: 73%

“…Although many identify as either pro-life or pro-choice, a substantial portion of adults in the USA hold attitudes that are more nuanced than is captured by these labels or may be representative of both or neither of these labels. Indeed, research suggests that people’s abortion beliefs are more nuanced than such a dichotomy presupposes, as people’s attitudes tend to vary along moral and legal dimensions [ 2 , 3 , 5 ]. For example, an individual who leans pro-choice may identify at least one circumstance in which an abortion is not acceptable (e.g., late-term abortion or aborting if the fetus is a different gender than desired).…”

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Assessing rigid modes of thinking in self-declared abortion ideology: natural language processing insights from an online pilot qualitative study on abortion attitudes

Valdez

Haus

Thij

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Introduction Although much work has been done on US abortion ideology, less is known relative to the psychological processes that distinguish personal abortion beliefs or how those beliefs are communicated to others. As part of a forthcoming probability-based sampling designed study on US abortion climate, we piloted a study with a controlled sample to determine whether psychological indicators guiding abortion beliefs can be meaningfully extracted from qualitative interviews using natural language processing (NLP) substring matching. Of particular interest to this study is the presence of cognitive distortions—markers of rigid thinking—spoken during interviews and how cognitive distortion frequency may be tied to rigid, or firm, abortion beliefs. Methods We ran qualitative interview transcripts against two lexicons. The first lexicon, the cognitive distortion schemata (CDS), was applied to identify cognitive distortion n-grams (a series of words) embedded within the qualitative interviews. The second lexicon, the Linguistic Inquiry Word Count (LIWC), was applied to extract other psychological indicators, including the degrees of (1) analytic thinking, (2) emotional reasoning, (3) authenticity, and (4) clout. Results People with polarized abortion views (i.e., strongly supportive of or opposed to abortion) had the highest observed usage of CDS n-grams, scored highest on authenticity, and lowest on analytic thinking. By contrast, people with moderate or uncertain abortion views (i.e., people holding more complex or nuanced views of abortion) spoke with the least CDS n-grams and scored slightly higher on analytic thinking. Discussion and conclusion Our findings suggest people communicate about abortion differently depending on their personal abortion ideology. Those with strong abortion views may be more likely to communicate with authoritative words and patterns of words indicative of cognitive distortions—or limited complexity in belief systems. Those with moderate views are more likely to speak in conflicting terms and patterns of words that are flexible and open to change—or high complexity in belief systems. These findings suggest it is possible to extract psychological indicators with NLP from qualitative interviews about abortion. Findings from this study will help refine our protocol ahead of full-study launch.

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“…White evangelical Protestants favor overturning Roe v. Wade, whereas White mainline Protestants, Black Protestants, and White Catholics tend to oppose overturning the decision (Dimock et al, 2013). However, some scholars have pointed to weaknesses of previous polling related to Roe v. Wade, including a tendency to assess attitudes toward the decision via a single item (Adamek, 1994) and the lack of detail provided by dichotomous response options (e.g., overturn vs. not; Jozkowski et al, 2020), especially given the complexity of the Roe v. Wade decision.…”

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Knowledge of and Attitudes Toward Roe v. Wade Among US Latinx Adults

Solon

Kaplan

Crawford

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Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences

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This study examines knowledge of and attitudes toward Roe v. Wade among a sample of 779 US Latinx adults. Survey response patterns were examined in relation to generational status and choice of survey language as well as to several demographic variables previously shown to influence abortion attitudes (e.g., age, religiosity, political affiliation). Differences were found in knowledge of Roe v. Wade by generational status and survey language, with those with higher generational statuses and those taking the survey in English exhibiting greater knowledge. Finally, greater knowledge of Roe v. Wade and choosing to take the survey in English predicted more positive attitudes toward Roe v. Wade controlling for other demographic variables; no effect on attitudes of generational status was observed. These findings contribute to our understanding of abortion attitudes among US Latinxs as well as the relationship between political socialization, knowledge, and attitudes toward social issues.

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Knowledge and Sentiments of Roe v. Wade in the Wake of Justice Kavanaugh’s Nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court

Cited by 21 publications

References 6 publications

Examining abortion attitudes in the context of gestational age

Examining abortion attitudes in the context of gestational age

Assessing rigid modes of thinking in self-declared abortion ideology: natural language processing insights from an online pilot qualitative study on abortion attitudes

Knowledge of and Attitudes Toward Roe v. Wade Among US Latinx Adults

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