The Effect of First-Person Suffering Accounts on Abortion Attitudes

• In Event: Contemporary health policy issues

Brief Overview

Do first person narratives that convey suffering affect abortion attitude? We track the prevalence of abortion stories from 2018 to 2024 in national newspapers. We then use an experiment to test the implication of these stories on abortion attitudes.

Authors

• Bethany Albertson, University of Texas at Austin

• Shana Kushner Gadarian, Syracuse University