Essay Archive - Attitudes Toward Abortion
Attitudes Toward Abortion
In the last two decades studies on the correlates of attitudes toward abortion have proliferated (Hertel, et al., 1974; Renzi, 1975; Granberg, 1978; McIntosh, et al., 1979; D'Antonio and Stack, 1980; Benin, 1985; Harris and Mills, 1985; McCutcheon, 1987; Jelen, 1988). Although these studies have clarified which variables are related to attitudes toward abortion, the reasons for these relationships have been largely left unexplained. Thus, much of the literature lacks theoretical coherence.
In this study, an effort is made to con....
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