Abortion Education: A Grounded Theory Study Exploring How One Comes to Hold Abortion Attitudes

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Abstract

The current paper takes a closer analytic look at the conceptualization of “education” inside the qualitative findings of the 24 interviews included in an earlier multi-method, dual language study that explored changes in abortion attitudes over the lifecourse. We assumed that learning is involved in the development of abortion attitudes, and we asked: What is the educational source and content that people perceive as relevant to their current abortion attitudes? On the surface, racial differences in attitudinal change did not surface, but when the source and content of learning is analyzed in a more refined way, racial differences in how and what people are learning over time about abortion reveals nuances missing from the literature.

Authors

• Barbara Dennis, Indiana University

• Xiana Bueno, Indiana University

• Nana Amma Asamoah, University of Arkansas

• Kristen Jozkowski, Indiana University

• Brandon Crawford, Indiana University

• Ronna C. Turner, University of Arkansas

• Wen-Juo Lo, University of Arkansas