Congressional Attention to Abortion After Dobbs

• In Event: Partisanship, Polarization, and Policy

Brief Overview

How has congressional discourse on abortion shifted since Dobbs? Using a dataset of 1.6M committee hearing statements from the 105th–119th Congresses, we analyze changes in both the frequency and framing of abortion rhetoric before and after Dobbs.

Authors

• Jacob Michael Lollis, University of Cincinnati

• Mackenzie Ridge Dobson, University of Virginia