Race and abortion: disconfirmation of the genocide hypothesis in a clinical analogue.
This study examined the validity of the proposition that a latent function of liberalized abortion is racial genocide. Using an abortion counseling analogue, forty-two white abortion counselors rendered clinical reactions, including the relative desirability of abortion, to a bogus female patient described as ambivalent about her pregnancy and designated as black or white within a case report. A stronger preference for abortion when the patient was black-identified was not found either among the sample as a whole or among socially traditional and untraditional subgroups.
D000023:Abortion Applicants; D000029:Abortion, Legal / Q000523:psychology*; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003376:Counseling; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011155:Population Control; D011247:Pregnancy; D011287:Prejudice; D011822:Race Relations; D012923:Social Class; D012945:Social Values; D014481:United States