title: Abortion in Canada: religious and ideological dimensions of women's attitudes.
abstract: This paper examines a number of demographic and sociocultural factors (e.g., age, marital status, family size, religion, religious assiduity, sex-role ideology) as predictors of women's attitudes toward abortion, using data from the Canadian Fertility Survey of 1984. The findings suggest that women's abortion attitudes are to a greater extent based on ideological positions. It appears that anti-abortion stance affects those women who are religious, presumably by increasing the relationship between their general sex-role ideological stances and abortion attitudes. Abortion attitudes also vary according to a woman's education, her size, and province/region of residence.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Krishnan
mesh_terms: D000028:Abortion, Induced / Q000523:psychology*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001290:Attitude; D002170:Canada; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008393:Marriage; D008875:Middle Aged; D011247:Pregnancy; D012069:Religion and Psychology