TY - JOUR
T1 - Abortion politics in the United States, 1972-1994
T2 - From single issue to ideology
AU - Hout, Michael
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - The political debates about legal abortion in the United States have intensified the ideological content of the issue. At the time that Roe v. Wade legalized abortion nation-wide, conservatives were divided on the issue, as were liberals. By the late 1990s, conservatives had moved toward a pro-life stance while liberals reached consensus on supporting choice. Women began the politicization, beginning to split along ideological lines in the late 1970s; men followed in the 1980s. Attitudes toward women's roles and sexual morality are strongly correlated with opinions about abortion, and they explain about one-third of the recent ideological gap on abortion. They do not account for the trend toward politicization, however.
AB - The political debates about legal abortion in the United States have intensified the ideological content of the issue. At the time that Roe v. Wade legalized abortion nation-wide, conservatives were divided on the issue, as were liberals. By the late 1990s, conservatives had moved toward a pro-life stance while liberals reached consensus on supporting choice. Women began the politicization, beginning to split along ideological lines in the late 1970s; men followed in the 1980s. Attitudes toward women's roles and sexual morality are strongly correlated with opinions about abortion, and they explain about one-third of the recent ideological gap on abortion. They do not account for the trend toward politicization, however.
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U2 - 10.1007/s12147-999-0013-9
DO - 10.1007/s12147-999-0013-9
M3 - Article
C2 - 12349270
AN - SCOPUS:0033086066
SN - 1098-092X
VL - 17
SP - 3
EP - 34
JO - Gender Issues
JF - Gender Issues
IS - 2
ER -