Religion and Opposition to Abortion Reconsidered
Opposition to legalized abortion is related to religious preferences of a stratified national sample of entering college freshmen (n = 18,004). Categories of preference ranked from high to low opposition are: Latter-Day Saints, Roman Catholics, Adventist, small Protestant denominations, Baptist, His...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1985
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Review of religious research
Year: 1985, Volume: 27, Issue: 2, Pages: 158-168 |
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| Summary: | Opposition to legalized abortion is related to religious preferences of a stratified national sample of entering college freshmen (n = 18,004). Categories of preference ranked from high to low opposition are: Latter-Day Saints, Roman Catholics, Adventist, small Protestant denominations, Baptist, Hispanic R. Catholic, other religions (not listed), Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran, Muslim, Methodist, Presbyterian, Congregational, Episcopalian, Quaker, none/no preference, Jewish, and Unitarian. The relationship between attitude toward abortion and religious preference is not spurious when additive relationships of both with attendance at religious services, region and mother's education are controlled. However, significant first-order interactions of preference with attendance, region and mother's education are observed. Results suggest that the relationship between religion and opposition to abortion may be more complicated than previous research has indicated. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3511670 |