Ipas, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, Mexico City, Mexico.
Contraception. 2018 Dec;98(6):504-509. doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2018.06.008. Epub 2018 Jun 27.
No standard exists to measure religiosity in abortion studies. We test whether religiosity is associated with support for abortion among Mexican Catholics and whether different measures of degree of Catholicism alter the relationship.
We conducted a nationally representative cross-sectional study using survey data from 2669 self-identified Mexican Catholics (response rate 85%). Our three outcomes were 1) overall support for legal abortion and support for abortion under exceptions, grouped as having 2) traditionally high agreement (rape, life) and 3) low agreement (on demand, socioeconomic). We used logistic regression controlling for sociodemographic covariates to test the association of four measures of Catholicism with our outcomes.
The majority of Mexican Catholics support abortion in some circumstances. (90% at least one high agreement exception and 40% at least one low agreement exception). The only measure of degree of Catholicism significantly associated with all our outcomes was belief that a person who helps someone who aborts can be a good Catholic. Those who agreed (versus not) had higher odds of support for abortion for both high agreement (aOR 3.6 [95% CI: 1.7-7.9]) and low agreement (aOR 1.9 [95% CI: 1.3-2.7]) exceptions. Respondents who believe a woman who aborts does not need to confess (aOR 2.1 [95% CI: 1.5-2.8]) or needs to confess to God (aOR 1.4 [95% CI: 1.04-1.8]) versus a priest had higher odds of agreement with at least one low agreement exception.
Opinion toward abortion among Mexican Catholics is diverse. More nuanced measures of Catholicism are valuable in assessing support for abortion, especially exceptions with low support.
The main reasons women need abortion are precisely those with low support among Mexican Catholics. Focusing on nuanced measures of Catholicism can help us identify areas for shared values and frame messaging to meet the diversity of Catholic opinion. Catholicism is not an unsurmountable barrier to liberalization of abortion law.
在堕胎研究中，没有衡量宗教信仰的标准。我们检验宗教信仰是否与墨西哥天主教徒对堕胎的支持有关，以及不同程度的天主教信仰衡量标准是否会改变这种关系。
我们使用来自 2669 名自我认同的墨西哥天主教徒的调查数据进行了一项全国代表性的横断面研究（回应率为 85%）。我们的三个结果是：1）对合法堕胎的总体支持以及对例外情况下堕胎的支持，分为具有 2）传统上高度一致（强奸、生命）和 3）低度一致（按需、社会经济）的支持。我们使用逻辑回归控制社会人口统计学协变量来检验四种天主教信仰衡量标准与我们的结果之间的关联。
大多数墨西哥天主教徒在某些情况下支持堕胎。（90%至少同意一个高一致例外，40%至少同意一个低一致例外）。唯一与我们所有结果显著相关的天主教信仰程度衡量标准是，帮助堕胎者的人可以成为一个好天主教徒的信念。那些同意（与不同意相比）的人对高一致（优势比[aOR]3.6[95%置信区间：1.7-7.9]）和低一致（aOR 1.9[95%置信区间：1.3-2.7]）例外情况的支持率更高。认为堕胎的妇女不需要向神父告解（aOR 2.1[95%置信区间：1.5-2.8]）或需要向上帝告解（aOR 1.4[95%置信区间：1.04-1.8]）的人比向神父告解的人更有可能同意至少一个低一致例外。
墨西哥天主教徒对堕胎的看法多种多样。更细致的天主教信仰衡量标准在评估对堕胎的支持方面很有价值，尤其是对支持率较低的例外情况。
女性需要堕胎的主要原因正是墨西哥天主教徒中支持率较低的那些原因。关注天主教信仰的细致衡量标准可以帮助我们确定共同价值观的领域，并形成信息传递，以满足天主教徒观点的多样性。天主教信仰不是使堕胎法自由化的不可逾越的障碍。
