Abortion and Public Opinion in Great Britain: A 50-Year Retrospective

Autor/inn/en	Clements, Ben; Field, Clive D.
Titel	Abortion and Public Opinion in Great Britain: A 50-Year Retrospective
Quelle	In: Journal of Beliefs & Values, 39 (2018) 4, S.429-444 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1361 7672
DOI	10.1080/13617672.2018.1441351
Schlagwörter	Pregnancy; Public Opinion; Foreign Countries; Trend Analysis; Federal Legislation; Ambiguity (Context); Trauma; European History; Public Support; United Kingdom (Great Britain) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schwangerschaft; Öffentliche Meinung; Ausland; Trendanalyse; Bundesrecht; Öffentliche Förderung; Öffentliche Trägerschaft
Abstract	Trends in attitudes to abortion in Britain are reviewed from the perspective of opinion polls and sample surveys for the half-century since the passage of the Abortion Act 1967. The public's approach to abortion is found to have been mostly 'situationalist', conditioned by the circumstances in which abortions were to be carried out, rather than absolutist. Abortions for traumatic reasons have typically been approved from the outset but abortions for social reasons divided opinion, although they have become more acceptable over time, and very few people indeed now reject abortions in all circumstances. Results from 'non-situationalist' questions, asking about abortion in general, proved harder to interpret and were sometimes apparently contradictory or characterised by a concentration of replies in a middle ground of ambivalence, neutrality, or the avoidance of expressing strong views. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01