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<p>Following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling to eliminate the federal right to abortion (the “<i>Dobbs</i> decision”), a new landscape of highly variable abortion policies emerged across the U.S. Given that individuals’ attitudes toward those who have abortions wield significant power in shaping abortion policies, it is critical to understand the factors which underly these attitudes toward those who have abortions. The current work investigated whether White Americans’ attitudes toward abortion may be related to their mental representations of those who have abortions, with implications for restrictive abortion policy support. Across three pre-registered online study sets (<i>N</i> = 2414) and one nationally representative sample (<i>N</i> = 452), the findings suggest that White Americans’ mental representations of those who have abortions are suffused with racial and gender bias, particularly when imagining those who have abortions for non-medical reasons, and these visualizations impact abortion policy attitudes.</p>

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Investigating White Americans’ Mental Images of Who Has Abortions and Its Impact on Attitudes Toward Abortion Policies

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    2025年11月20日

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  • Jazmin L. Brown-Iannuzzi,
  • Erin Cooley,
  • Sarah Espinel,
  • Jaclyn A. Lisnek,
  • William Cipolli III,
  • Sara I. McClelland

摘要

Following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling to eliminate the federal right to abortion (the “Dobbs decision”), a new landscape of highly variable abortion policies emerged across the U.S. Given that individuals’ attitudes toward those who have abortions wield significant power in shaping abortion policies, it is critical to understand the factors which underly these attitudes toward those who have abortions. The current work investigated whether White Americans’ attitudes toward abortion may be related to their mental representations of those who have abortions, with implications for restrictive abortion policy support. Across three pre-registered online study sets (N = 2414) and one nationally representative sample (N = 452), the findings suggest that White Americans’ mental representations of those who have abortions are suffused with racial and gender bias, particularly when imagining those who have abortions for non-medical reasons, and these visualizations impact abortion policy attitudes.