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Blind Spots in Abortion Attitudes: Investigating the Nuance of UK Women's Pro-Choice Perspectives.
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Women's Reproductive Health . 2024, Vol. 11 Issue 1, p108-129. 22p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Abortion attitudes are typically contextualized as pro-life or pro-choice, yet these characterizations ignore the complex ideas that individuals hold about abortion. To address this gap, we conducted a thematic analysis of 28 semi-structured interviews with women in the UK, both with (n = 12) and without (n = 16) personal abortion experience. The theme "blind spots" captures patterns in our participants' accounts, wherein complexity and even conflict would emerge within expressed abortion judgments. Our subthemes highlight those conflicts between more and less restrictive abortion attitudes that occurred when considering either the same (self or other) or different (self vs. other) attitudinal objects. Many participants were unaware of the conflicting and nuanced attitudes they held about abortion, evidenced by an inability to integrate these positions into a clear and consistent judgment, indicating that a dichotomy of abortion attitudes may be too simplistic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *ABORTION laws
*ABORTION & psychology
*QUALITATIVE research
*REPRODUCTIVE health
*PATIENT safety
*STEREOTYPES
*FEMINISM
*INTERVIEWING
*PSYCHOLOGY of women
*DECISION making
*DESCRIPTIVE statistics
*THEMATIC analysis
*ATTITUDES toward abortion
*RESEARCH methodology
*JUDGMENT (Psychology)
*SOCIAL support
*SOCIAL stigma
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 23293691
- Volume :
- 11
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Women's Reproductive Health
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 177218669
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/23293691.2023.2206388