Sex Differences in Correlates of Abortion Attitudes among College Students

Finlay, Barbara

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“…This is in direct contrast to other research findings which found that men were more likely to support reproductive choice (e.g. Cook et al 1992), though it is perhaps also indicative of the weakness of gender as an associated variable when not considered alongside other potential determinants such as education level (Finlay 1981;Walzer 1994).…”

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“…Level of education has been found to be a relatively strong predictor of an individual's attitude towards abortion, with a number of studies demonstrating that higher educational attainment has a positive relationship with support for reproductive choice (Finlay 1981;Marsiglio and Shehan 1993;Walzer 1994). There have been some findings, however, which have shown this effect to be mediated by gender (Bolzendahl and Myers 2004) as well as church attendance (Petersen 2001).…”

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Examining Attitudes Towards Reproductive Rights in the Gauteng City-Region of South Africa

Mahomed

2015

Soc Indic Res

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South Africa has one of the most liberal abortion laws in the world, emphasising the right to reproductive choice, in keeping with the country's post-apartheid emphasis on human rights. Access to abortion may also be considered a public health consideration, due to the large number of complications associated with illegal abortions and the associated burden of care. Despite these justifications for a more permissive stance towards abortion, there remain large segments of South African society who are opposed to termination of pregnancy on request. This paper examines the status of reproductive rights in South Africa before looking more closely at public attitudes towards them in the country's largest city-region. It uses survey data considering attitudes towards abortion as well as the interaction of these attitudes with the variables of race, gender, education level and age using multinomial logistic regression. The results indicate that the largest proportion of respondents oppose abortion absolutely, while a smaller proportion would be open to abortion if the mother's life is in danger or if the pregnancy was a result of rape. Throughout, the smallest proportion of respondents was of the view that abortion on request is a human right. In terms of predictive value, educational attainment was a stronger predictor than age, race or gender, though there is a distinct lack of consistency in predictive validity of all factors, demonstrating the significant gap between the liberality of laws and the conservatism of public attitudes.

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Examining Attitudes Towards Reproductive Rights in the Gauteng City-Region of South Africa

Mahomed

2015

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“…that past research has found men and women to show very similar levels of support for abortion (Granberg 1978; Granberg andGranberg 1980, 1985; Ebaugh and Haney 1978;Finlay 1981; Barnartt and Harris 1982, Cook, Jelen, and Wilcox 1992).…”

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Examining the Absence of a Gender Effect on Abortion Attitudes: Is There Really No Difference?

Hertel

Russell

1999

Sociological Inquiry

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Earlier research on attitudes toward abortion has found little or no difference between men and women. To the limited extent that there is any gender effect, men are slightly more inclined than women to be prochoice (e.g., Cook, Jelen, and Wilcox 1992). Women, however, have been found to regard the issue as more important (Scott and Schuman 1988). The present study uses Geneml Social Survey data from 1972 through 1994 to further explore gender and attitudes toward abortion. We find that within three marital statuses-single, married, widowed-men are somewhat more supportive of abortion rights but that women consider the issue to be more important and have clearer but not necessarily stronger attitudes than men. When differences in workforce participation are controlled, the sex effect is reversed, with women being more prochoice than men. Although significantly related to abortion attitudes, race, marital status, and religious identity are not relevant to this reversal in the sex effect. ProblemThe issue of abortion rights has been central to the women's movement of recent decades as well as a major concern of conservative Christians. On the face of it, the questions surrounding abortion rights are inherently more relevant to women than to men. It is, after all, an issue of the right of women to control their bodies. The question of whether abortion should be allowed in the event of endangered health of the mother pertains to a threat to women. The question of whether abortion should be allowed in the event of rape concerns women as victims and men as victimizers. On the premise that abortion rights are an aspect of women's rights (Figueira-McDonough 1989, pp. 540-41), we would expect to find that women support abortion rights more than men do. Conversely, "according to simple self-interest logic, men would be expected to oppose abortion by women's choice since this implies a loss of their control over women's sexuality and their generativity" (Figueira-McDonough 1989, pp. 541-42). This is not to say that we would expect to find dramatic gender differences in attitudes toward abortion. Instead, our starting point and source of the puzzlement that led us to undertake this study was our expectation that women would be at least somewhat more supportive of abortion rights, particularly when the pregnancy results from rape or the mother's life is endangered. It is noteworthy, however,

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“…This study will also examine whether the survey mode effect differs by gender. Research has shown gender differences on attitudes toward abortion (Finlay, 1981;Lohan, Cruise, O'Halloran, Alderdice, & Hyde, 2011;Schwandt et al, 2013). Women hold more liberal attitudes and a higher approval of women's autonomy in abortion decisions than men (Patel & Johns, 2009).…”

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Data Collection Mode Effect on Abortion Questions: A Comparison of Face-To-Face and Web Surveys

Liu¹

2018

Gend Womens Stud

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Sex Differences in Correlates of Abortion Attitudes among College Students

Cited by 28 publications

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Examining Attitudes Towards Reproductive Rights in the Gauteng City-Region of South Africa

Examining Attitudes Towards Reproductive Rights in the Gauteng City-Region of South Africa

Examining the Absence of a Gender Effect on Abortion Attitudes: Is There Really No Difference?

Data Collection Mode Effect on Abortion Questions: A Comparison of Face-To-Face and Web Surveys

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