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  • Public Opinion Studies

Background:

  • Understanding public abortion attitudes is crucial for policymakers.
  • Inaccurate knowledge and negative attitudes toward abortion can increase stigma and negatively impact access and women's health.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine changes in abortion knowledge and attitudes in Delaware and Maryland between 2016 and 2020.
  • To explore the association between personally knowing someone who had an abortion and changes in abortion knowledge and attitudes.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized data from the Delaware [Maryland] Survey of Women (N=1106), a probability sample of women aged 18-44.
  • Tracked changes in perceived abortion safety, perceived access, acceptability, and advocacy self-identification from 2016/2017 to 2019/2020.
  • Employed logistic models with inverse probability weights, analyzing the impact of knowing someone who had an abortion, controlling for covariates.

Main Results:

  • Significant percentages of women changed their views: 46% on safety/accessibility, 21% on acceptability, and 25% on advocacy identification.
  • Personally knowing someone who had an abortion was associated with shifts towards viewing abortion as safe and adopting pro-choice stances.
  • This association also correlated with a reduced likelihood of shifting towards viewing abortion as wrong or identifying as pro-life.

Conclusions:

  • Abortion knowledge and attitudes are dynamic and can evolve over time.
  • Personal experience, such as knowing someone who had an abortion, is linked to more positive attitudes and accurate knowledge.
  • Sharing personal abortion experiences may help reduce stigma, negative attitudes, and misinformation.