BELIEFS ABOUT TRUSTING WOMEN TO MAKE THEIR OWN ABORTION DECISIONS AND PUNISHMENT FOR SELF-MANAGED MEDICATION ABORTION IN A NATIONALLY REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE
A Becker, R Schroeder, L Ralph, S Kaller, MA Biggs
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Abstract
Objectives
Given the anticipated increase in self-managed medication abortion due to decreased access to facility-based abortion in the US after Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization, we examined lay attitudes regarding trusting pregnant people to make their own abortion decisions and whether trusting women is associated with beliefs about punishment for self-managed medication abortion.
Methods
We conducted a nationally representative cross-sectional survey of 7,148 people assigned female at birth (AFAB), aged 15–49 from May to July 2023, using a probability-based panel. Participants were asked to indicate whether they agree or disagree that “Most women are capable of making the best decision on abortion for themselves.” We calculated a mean Trust women score (1–5, 5=higher trust). We conducted multivariable regression to assess factors associated with trusting women and whether trusting women was associated with support for reporting people to Child Protective Services or the police, having them pay a fine, or jailing those who self-managed a medication abortion.
Results
The mean Trust Women score was 2.6 (SD= 1.24). Respondents were evenly split between trusting women (50.36% agreed/strongly agreed, 49.64% disagreed, strongly disagreed, or neither agreed nor disagreed). Identifying as a gender or sexual minority, as Democrat, as non-Hispanic Black, and supportive of legal access to in-clinic abortion were associated with higher odds in trusting women to make abortion decisions. Trusting women was associated with decreased support for all forms of punishment for self-managed medication abortion.
Conclusions
Beliefs about trusting women are polarized, with only half of AFAB people reporting trusting women to make their own abortion decisions; these attitudes are associated with beliefs about punishing those who self-manage a medication abortion.
期刊介绍：
Contraception has an open access mirror journal Contraception: X, sharing the same aims and scope, editorial team, submission system and rigorous peer review.
The journal Contraception wishes to advance reproductive health through the rapid publication of the best and most interesting new scholarship regarding contraception and related fields such as abortion. The journal welcomes manuscripts from investigators working in the laboratory, clinical and social sciences, as well as public health and health professions education.
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