Mississippi State University, PO Box C, Mississippi State, MS 39762, United States.
Soc Sci Med. 2014 Feb;102:18-25. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.11.030. Epub 2013 Nov 23.
This paper examines the content of Post Abortion Syndrome (PAS) claims, the social actors involved and how this social diagnosis bypassed professional dissent and diffused into public policy in the United States. Previous works on the spread of PAS focus on almost exclusively on anti-abortion think tanks and policymakers. Missing from these analyses, however, is an emphasis on the grassroots-level actions undertaken by evangelical crisis pregnancy center (CPC) activists in introducing and circulating PAS claims. The CPC movement introduced PAS claims and provided the fodder for anti-abortion think tanks to construct evidence of pro-life claims. Despite dissent from health professionals and academic researchers, CPC PAS claims successfully diffused into federal and state abortion policy. I draw upon Brown et al.'s social diagnosis framework and Armstrong's five-stage model of diagnosis development to frame this account.
本文考察了流产后综合征 (PAS) 主张的内容、涉及的社会行为者，以及这一社会诊断是如何绕过专业异议并在美国扩散到公共政策中的。之前关于 PAS 传播的研究工作几乎完全集中在反堕胎智库和政策制定者身上。然而，这些分析中忽略了福音派危机怀孕中心 (CPC) 活动家在引入和传播 PAS 主张方面所采取的基层行动。CPC 运动引入了 PAS 主张，并为反堕胎智库提供了构建支持生命主张证据的素材。尽管卫生专业人员和学术研究人员持不同意见，但 CPC 的 PAS 主张成功地扩散到了联邦和州的堕胎政策中。我借鉴了 Brown 等人的社会诊断框架和 Armstrong 的诊断发展五阶段模型来构建这一论述。
