Pro-choice and Pro-life Are Not Enough: An Investigation of Abortion Attitudes as a Function of Abortion Prototypes.
Attitudes toward abortion were investigated as being comprised of two dimensions: attitudes toward abortion as a procedure and attitudes toward choice. By separating the two dimensions as conceptually distinct, attitudinal groups expand beyond the traditional "pro-choice" and "pro-life" absolutist c...
| Publicado en: | Sexuality & Culture Vol. 24; no. 6; pp. 1829 - 1852 |
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