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Online Social Media Reactions to the Overturn of Roe v. Wade: Public Health Implications and Policy Insights
The Supreme Court of the United States’ (SCOTUS) decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned the Court’s previous decision in Roe v. Wade, the case that established abortion before fetal v...
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Predictors of Engagement in Abortion-Related Activism Before and After the Nomination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh
Guided by the Civic Voluntarism Model (CVM), we examined (1) people’s lifetime engagement in abortion-related activism behaviors prior to Justice Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court of the United State...
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Examining the Effect of a Randomized Media Intervention on Knowledge and Support of Abortion Restrictions: A Case Study in the South
Abortion restrictions diminish access and perpetuate hostility toward abortion seekers. Support for restrictions is high, but at the same time, understanding of restrictions is low. We evaluated the effectiven...
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Examining the Relationship Between Roe v. Wade Knowledge and Sentiment Across Political Party and Abortion Identity
With the recent changes to the composition of the Supreme Court in the USA, speculation that Roe v. Wade may be overturned abounds. Research assessing people’s knowledge and sentiment toward Roe v. Wade is limite...
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Open AccessAssessing rigid modes of thinking in self-declared abortion ideology: natural language processing insights from an online pilot qualitative study on abortion attitudes
Although much work has been done on US abortion ideology, less is known relative to the psychological processes that distinguish personal abortion beliefs or how those beliefs are communicated to others. As pa...
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Abortion Complexity Scores from 1972 to 2018: A Cross-Sectional Time-Series Analysis Using Data from the General Social Survey
According to data from the General Social Survey (GSS), abortion attitudes have remained relatively stable since 1972. Despite this apparent stability, some researchers argue abortion opinions have become incr...
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Knowledge and Sentiments of Roe v. Wade in the Wake of Justice Kavanaugh’s Nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court
With Justice Kavanaugh joining the U.S. Supreme Court, there is speculation that Roe v. Wade may be overturned. For decades, public opinion polls have asked people how they feel about overturning Roe v. Wade. How...
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Mental Health Diagnoses of Youth Commercial Sex Exploitation Victims: an Analysis within an Adjudicated Delinquent Sample
Existing criminology and victimization research suggests that youth victims of commercial sex often have mental health issues stemming from their sex victimization and/or emerging out of their long histories o...
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Complexity in Attitudes Toward Abortion Access: Results from Two Studies
State governments in the US continue to pass legislation restricting access to abortion, suggesting that public opinion supports increased restriction. Research assessing the extent to which people’s abortion ...
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The Status of Reproductive and Sexual Health in Southern USA: Policy Recommendations for Improving Health Outcomes
A review of public health data for the 50 states shows that southern states including Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas consistently have the highest teen pregnancy, teen birth, and sexually tr...