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Shreya Singh; Cecilia Cerja; Catherine Helen Palczewski – Communication Education, 2024
Long before the Dobbs decision, abortion was a fraught topic in communication classes. Post-Dobbs, the disincentives to discussing abortion intensified as a slew of state legislative actions-imposed restrictions not only on abortion access, but also on anything that might be construed as support for abortion. The purpose with this essay is to…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Pregnancy, College Faculty, State Legislation
Duggan, Jessica – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2023
There is a great deal of misinformation and stigma surrounding abortion, even though it is a common reproductive health service. Teaching about abortion encompasses many things: managing the beliefs of students and teachers; state regulations around teaching or talking about abortion in schools; available resources; and the cultural miseducation…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Teaching Methods, Social Media, Controversial Issues (Course Content)
Behonick, Dani – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: No studies have assessed the need for abortion access at California Community Colleges (CCCs), despite recent research and legislative attention toward on-campus medication abortion access at California's public universities, and the fact that CCCs enroll more than twice the number of students per year as the public universities.…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Pregnancy, Access to Health Care, Drug Therapy
van Hest, Ella; De Wilde, July; Van Hoof, Sarah – Language Policy, 2023
This paper investigates an abortion clinic's procedural choices regarding the management of linguistic diversity. It focuses in particular on how language serves as capital for clients' agency in decision-making regarding their abortion treatment. Based on linguistic-ethnographic fieldwork in a Flemish abortion clinic, we analyse the clinic's…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Pregnancy, Clinics, Language Attitudes
Jacobson, Laura E.; Ramirez, Ana Maria; Bercu, Chiara; Katz, Anna; Gerdts, Caitlin; Baum, Sarah E. – Youth & Society, 2022
Young people face social and structural barriers when accessing abortions. High-quality, sexual and reproductive healthcare is needed; however, literature on youth-informed abortion services is limited. This study assesses accounts of youth who obtained an abortion in Argentina, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Nigeria and provides recommendations to…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Decision Making, Cross Cultural Studies, Clinics
Sarah K. Cowan; Michael Hout; Stuart Perrett – Sociological Methods & Research, 2024
Long-running surveys need a systematic way to reflect social change and to keep items relevant to respondents, especially when they ask about controversial subjects, or they threaten the items' validity. We propose a protocol for updating measures that preserves content and construct validity. First, substantive experts articulate the current and…
Descriptors: Surveys, Public Opinion, Social Attitudes, Pregnancy
Rice, Whitney S.; Narasimhan, Subasri; Newton-Levinson, Anna; Pringle, Johanna; Redd, Sara K.; Evans, Dabney P. – Health Education & Behavior, 2022
The exceptionalism of abortion in public health education, due to social stigma, politicization, and lack of training, contributes to misinformation, policies unjustified by rigorous science, lack of access to person-centered health care, and systemic pregnancy-related inequities. Now that abortion access has vanished for large portions of the…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Social Bias, Political Issues, Health Education
Kulczycki, Andrzej – Health Education & Behavior, 2022
On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision on "Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization." By voting to uphold Mississippi's law banning most abortions after 15 weeks, the Court overturned "Roe v. Wade," eliminating the federal standard protecting a woman's right to abortion and reversing nearly 50 years of…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Courts, Females, Health Services
Begun, Stephanie; Combs, Katie Massey; Schwan, Kaitlin; Torrie, Michaela; Bender, Kimberly – Youth & Society, 2020
Pregnancy rates among youth experiencing homelessness are much higher than those of their housed peers, yet limited research exists on this population's abortion experiences. This study examined abortion attitudes, experiences, and decision making through individual interviews with 30 female, male, and gender-fluid youth (ages 18-21 years)…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Pregnancy, Decision Making, Access to Health Care
Pirkle, Jesseca R. A. – Health Education & Behavior, 2023
Since federal legalization in 1973, abortion has become a safe and popular option for those who desire to terminate a pregnancy. However, the Supreme Court decision of "Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization" in June 2022 clearly outlined a national divide that shifted abortion rights in the hands of state legislatures. This shift…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Federal Legislation, State Legislation, Females
Miranda Håkansson; Rahel Abebe Mamo; Haroon Bayani Parwani; Beatrice Otieno; Marlene Makenzius – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2024
The aim of this qualitative study was to explore desired ways to deliver comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) and topics, among secondary school students in a low-resource setting in Western Kenya. One school (n = 440) has received 8-9-h CSE intervention, while the other school (n = 496) served as a control. After one-year follow-up the…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes
Betul Cebesoy, Umran; Chang Rundgren, Shu-Nu – Educational Review, 2023
In recent decades, socioscientific issues (SSI) have been emerging from the interrelationship between science, technology, and society. For example, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, related decisions, like whether we need to ask people to use facemasks, is an SSI question being discussed internationally with no right or wrong answer. Controversial…
Descriptors: Science and Society, Teaching Methods, Decision Making, Controversial Issues (Course Content)
Katz, Jennifer – Professional Counselor, 2019
Abortion is common, yet stigmatized. In some cases, abortion patients may experience feelings of sadness, guilt, anger, and other signs of emotional distress after their pregnancy is terminated. This article offers guidance for counselors seeking to provide nonjudgmental support to promote adaptation and recovery among abortion patients…
Descriptors: Females, Pregnancy, Coping, Stress Variables
Clements, Ben; Field, Clive D. – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2018
Trends in attitudes to abortion in Britain are reviewed from the perspective of opinion polls and sample surveys for the half-century since the passage of the Abortion Act 1967. The public's approach to abortion is found to have been mostly 'situationalist', conditioned by the circumstances in which abortions were to be carried out, rather than…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Public Opinion, Foreign Countries, Trend Analysis
Edwards, Baylee A.; Roberts, Julie A.; Bowen, Chloe; Brownell, Sara E.; Barnes, M. Elizabeth – Advances in Physiology Education, 2022
Bioethics is an important aspect of understanding the relationship between science and society, but studies have not yet examined undergraduate student experiences and comfort in bioethics courses. In this study, we investigated undergraduate bioethics students' support of and comfort when learning three controversial bioethics topics: gene…
Descriptors: Biology, Ethics, College Students, Student Attitudes