Testing the Effect of Race and Political Relations on Abortion Views
I. INTRODUCTION
Throughout the years there have been many debates and research within the United States as to whether or not abortion should be legalized and the impact it will have on women in the nation. Many debates have surrounded this topic, yet majority of them revolved around the moral and legal aspects: Is abortion murder? Are women who abort evil? Should abortion be left up to the woman since it is her body? Should abortion not be left up to the woman since it is not her body that she will “killing”? Questions have been raised, and they have all been answered with a wide variety of opinions following them. However many questions haven’t been raised as to what groups actually support abortion or don’t: Is there a correlation between ethnic or socio-economic status in regards to one’s opinion on abortion? Do certain ethnicities support abortion more than others? Are reasoning’s based off of religiosity, politics, family, or personal belief? These questions are important because it provides a deeper understanding of why people make such major decisions. Abortion is one of the biggest controversies worldwide. However primary answers as to why women choose abortion is because of rape, young age, or simply not wanting a child; what about other factors? This paper will set out to answer that by looking at the link between views on abortion (independent variable) and race (dependent variable) with the consideration of confounding variables: political identification, religiosity, family beliefs and personal beliefs. Using the hypothesis: that race and political identification hold an interaction effect on one’s opinion towards abortion, this study uses...
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...cient evidence to reject the null hypothesis. One’s opinion on abortion are reliable to related factors such as politics, family, religion, and personal opinion, however the factors aren’t sufficient enough; it can either aid or have no effect on the persons view.
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In Lucinda Almond’s book, “The Abortion Controversy”, she gives us an excellent resource for research and debatable topics that will rouse students interested in the contemporary and controversial topic of abortion. Her book also allows us to explore many of the social, political, and economic controversies over
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In a 2006 study conducted by the CDC, it was reported that 53-56% of abortions were performed on white women between the ages of 20 and 29. Among the 46 states that provided data consistently during 1996--2006, a total of 835,134 abortions (98.7% of the total) were reported; the abortion rate was 16.1 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15--44 years, and the abortion ratio was 236 abortions per 1,000 live births. During the previous decade (1997--2006), reported abortion numbers, rates, and ratios decreased 5.7%, 8.8%, and 14.8%, respectively; most of these declines occurred before 2001. During the previous year (2005--2006), the total number of abortions increased 3.1%, and the abortion rate increased 3.2%; the abortion ratio was stable. (CDC, 2009)
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