定义诊所之外的堕胎:从一个多州横截面调查中对堕胎的普世观点
Gentry Carter1, Robin E Jensen2, Jami Baayd1
1University of Utah, ASCENT Center, HELIX Building 5th Floor OBGYN, 30 Mario Capecchi Drive, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA.
Social science & medicine (1982)
|June 24, 2025
概括
非专业人士在定义堕胎方面表现出显著的不确定性,通常与医疗定义有所不同. 关于合法性和意识形态的信念塑造了对生殖场景的各种理解.
科学领域:
- 生殖健康 生殖健康
- 卫生社会学 卫生社会学
- 医学定义 医学定义
背景情况:
- 有限的研究存在于堕胎的世俗定义,尽管它们对生殖健康信仰和行为的影响.
- 堕胎的医学和法律定义已经得到了充分的证据,但公众对堕胎的理解仍未得到充分的探索.
- 简单的概念化对于理解生殖健康规范和行为至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查当代美国生殖健康格局中对堕胎的世俗定义.
- 探索人口和社会因素如何影响个人对堕胎的定义.
- 识别堕胎的世俗和医学定义之间的差异.
主要方法:
- 在美国西部三个拥有大量农村人口的州,对2,603人进行了定量调查.
- 参与者被要求将各种生殖场景归类为堕胎或不堕胎.
- 分析检查了人口统计学,社会因素和个人信仰对堕胎定义的影响.
主要成果:
- 在参与者中,关于什么是堕胎存在着相当大的不确定性.
- 只有在决定不怀孕后终止怀孕,才被一致归类为堕胎.
- 参与者的定义往往与医学定义有所不同,有些人将非医学场景归类为堕胎,反之亦然.
- 关于堕胎合法性的立场,政治意识形态,个人经历和对怀孕的信仰显著影响了世俗的定义.
- 那些反对合法堕胎的人更有可能将植入前情景归类为堕胎;那些支持合法性的人更有可能将更多情景归类为堕胎.
结论:
- 对于堕胎的世俗定义是复杂和异质的,根据个人的信仰和经验而有很大差异.
- 了解这些多样化的简单定义对于理解生殖健康态度和行为至关重要.
- 需要进行进一步的研究,以探索世俗定义的细微差别及其对生殖健康结果的影响.
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