Entry:

Walzer, Susan, "The Role of Gender in Determining Abortion Attitudes," Social Science Quarterly, 75 (September, 1994), 687-693.

Abstract:

Women who are Black, have higher levels of education, and who live in urban areas are tho more likely to support legalized abortion. Women who are Catholic, fundamentalist Protestant, attend religious services frequently, and who are full-time housekeepers are less supportive of abortion. For men, neither race nor having a spouse who is a housekeeper are significant predictors of abortion attitudes; the effects of education, size of residence, and religious variables, however, are the same for men as for

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