Indirect restrictions demobilize supporters of abortion rights.

State governments have created a multitude of indirect restrictions on abortion in the decades since Roe v. Wade. Here we test whether indirect restrictions demobilize abortion supporters relative to direct restrictions. We draw on research from moral psychology showing that people judge indirect of...

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Publicado en:Policy Studies Journal Vol. 53; no. 4; pp. 1123 - 1138
Autores principales: Connors, Elizabeth C., Del Ponte, Alessandro, DeScioli, Peter
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Nov2025
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          Connors, Elizabeth C.
          Del Ponte, Alessandro
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          Department of Political Science, University of South Carolina, Columbia South Carolina,, USA
          Department of Political Science, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa Alabama,, USA
          Global Asia Institute, National University of Singapore,, Singapore
          Department of Political Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook New York,, USA
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        Reproductive rights
        Pro-choice movement
        Policy sciences
        Political participation
        Moral reasoning
        Roe v. Wade
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          Reproductive rights
          Pro-choice movement
          Policy sciences
          Political participation
          Moral reasoning
          Roe v. Wade
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        abortion
        abortion bans
        experimental political science
        indirect policies
        moral psychology
        aborto
        ciencia política experimental
        políticas indirectas
        prohibición del aborto
        psicología moral
        堕胎
        堕胎禁令
        实验政治学
        道德心理学
        间接政策
        abortion
        abortion bans
        experimental political science
        indirect policies
        moral psychology
        aborto
        ciencia política experimental
        políticas indirectas
        prohibición del aborto
        psicología moral
        堕胎
        堕胎禁令
        实验政治学
        道德心理学
        间接政策
      ab: State governments have created a multitude of indirect restrictions on abortion in the decades since Roe v. Wade. Here we test whether indirect restrictions demobilize abortion supporters relative to direct restrictions. We draw on research from moral psychology showing that people judge indirect offenses as less morally wrong than direct offenses, holding constant the consequences of the offenses. In two experiments, pro‐choice participants answered how much they oppose a banning policy (a direct restriction), a defunding policy (an indirect restriction), or an excluding policy (the same as defunding but framed as more direct). In both experiments, pro‐choice participants were less opposed to defunding than banning or excluding, even when the number of women affected was held constant. These results support the hypothesis that indirect restrictions can demobilize political opponents.
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