Title
Causes and Consequences of Public Attitudes Toward Abortion: A Review and Research Agenda
Document Type
Article
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.
Disciplines
American Politics | Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Political Science | Social and Behavioral Sciences | Women's Studies
Citation Information
Jelen, T. G.,
Wilcox, C.
(2003).
Causes and Consequences of Public Attitudes Toward Abortion: A Review and Research Agenda.
Political Research Quarterly, 56(4),
489-500.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/106591290305600410