Adamczyk Amy
Department of Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 899 10th Avenue, Suite #520, New York, NY 10019, USA.
Soc Sci Res. 2008 Jun;37(2):657-72. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2007.09.003.
Researchers have established that individual religiosity influences abortion attitudes, and that abortion attitudes, in turn, shape abortion restrictions and access. Less clear is whether religion and abortion structural constraints influence abortion decisions. This study examines the several individual, contextual, and structural factors that could shape the abortion decisions of women who conceive before marriage. Special attention is given to the importance of academic aspirations and structural constraints, in contrast to religious beliefs and county religious context, for making an abortion decision. Hierarchical modeling techniques and two waves of data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) are employed. Neither generic religiosity nor conservative Protestant religious context appear to influence women's abortion decisions. Conversely, young women's abortion decisions are shaped by academic ambition, identification with a conservative Protestant denomination, proximity to an abortion clinic and the level of public abortion funding in their county of residence.
研究人员已经确定，个人的宗教信仰会影响对堕胎的态度，而这种态度反过来又会影响堕胎限制和堕胎机会。宗教与堕胎的结构限制是否会影响堕胎决定则不太明确。本研究考察了几个可能影响婚前怀孕女性堕胎决定的个人、背景和结构因素。与宗教信仰和所在县的宗教背景相比，本研究特别关注学业抱负和结构限制对堕胎决定的重要性。采用了分层建模技术以及来自青少年健康全国纵向研究（Add Health）的两波数据。一般的宗教信仰和保守新教的宗教背景似乎都不会影响女性的堕胎决定。相反，年轻女性的堕胎决定受到学业抱负、对保守新教教派的认同、与堕胎诊所的距离以及其居住县的公共堕胎资金水平的影响。
