title: Antichoice attitudes to abortion in women presenting for medical abortions.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine attitudes of women presenting for elective abortions.
  
  
  METHODS
  Women presenting for elective abortion induced with medication at an urban free-standing abortion clinic were given semistructured interviews about their attitudes to abortion.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of the 60 women interviewed, 26 voiced antichoice attitudes. These interviews were transcribed and analyzed for themes. The women with antichoice attitudes were similar to the women with prochoice attitudes in age, education, and religion but were less likely to be white (61.8% of prochoice women identified themselves as white, compared with 30.8% of antichoice women, P = 0.02). The antichoice women felt most strongly that other women should not be allowed to have an abortion if they gave as their reason, "want no more children," "not married," or "cannot afford." The most common themes were that one needed "enough" reasons to have an abortion and that women should take better precautions to prevent conception.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It is important for abortion clinic staff to realize that many women coming to an abortion clinic have antichoice views. These views may affect a woman's ability to recover emotionally after the procedure and will therefore have implications for the kind of supportive care women need both before and after the abortion.
authors.affiliation: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
authors.forename: Ellen R
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Wiebe
authors.forename: Konia J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Trouton
authors.forename: Stephen L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Fielding
authors.forename: Jodine
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Klippenstein
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Henderson
mesh_terms: D000028:Abortion, Induced / Q000523:psychology*; D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety; D001290:Attitude; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010298:Parity; D011247:Pregnancy; D011639:Public Opinion; D012067:Religion