Amy Adamczyk is Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Sociology and Criminal Justice Doctoral Programs at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research focuses on how different contexts and personal religious beliefs shape people's deviant, moral, and health-related attitudes and behaviors. Her first book, Public Opinion about Homosexuality: Examining Attitudes Across the Globe, won the Outstanding Book Award from the International Section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.

Methodically and admirably, Adamczyk has accomplished the extremely difficult central task of charting global public opinions on abortion and mapping the different national characteristics and the factors behind these differences by featuring China and the US. This book is not just timely, but also a crucial pioneering contribution that is bound to stimulate more multidisciplinary academic explorations and public discussion on abortion and various related issues on a global stage.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Religion and Abortion Attitudes 2. The Role of Economics and Education in Shaping Public Opinion about Abortion 3. Democracy, Laws, and Policy in Shaping Abortion Views 4. Gender Equality, Social Movement Activity, and Race for Understanding Views about Abortion 5. Communism, Confucianism, Cultural Values and Survey Challenges for Understanding Abortion Attitudes 6. Investigating Cross-National Abortion Behavior and Its Relationship with Attitudes Conclusion Appendix A: Appendix A: WVS analysis Appendix B: Appendix B: Newspaper analysis Appendix C: Additional Indicators Considered for Explaining Survey Respondent's Abortion Disapproval in Multivariate Mixed-Models Appendix D: Regression analysis of the cross-national factors shaping rates of unintended pregnancy and abortions of unintended pregnancies Bibliography Index

Amy Adamczyk is Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Sociology and Criminal Justice Doctoral Programs at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research focuses on how different contexts and personal religious beliefs shape people's deviant, moral, and health-related attitudes and behaviors. Her first book, Public Opinion about Homosexuality: Examining Attitudes Across the Globe, won the Outstanding Book Award from the International Section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.

Methodically and admirably, Adamczyk has accomplished the extremely difficult central task of charting global public opinions on abortion and mapping the different national characteristics and the factors behind these differences by featuring China and the US. This book is not just timely, but also a crucial pioneering contribution that is bound to stimulate more multidisciplinary academic explorations and public discussion on abortion and various related issues on a global stage.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Religion and Abortion Attitudes 2. The Role of Economics and Education in Shaping Public Opinion about Abortion 3. Democracy, Laws, and Policy in Shaping Abortion Views 4. Gender Equality, Social Movement Activity, and Race for Understanding Views about Abortion 5. Communism, Confucianism, Cultural Values and Survey Challenges for Understanding Abortion Attitudes 6. Investigating Cross-National Abortion Behavior and Its Relationship with Attitudes Conclusion Appendix A: Appendix A: WVS analysis Appendix B: Appendix B: Newspaper analysis Appendix C: Additional Indicators Considered for Explaining Survey Respondent's Abortion Disapproval in Multivariate Mixed-Models Appendix D: Regression analysis of the cross-national factors shaping rates of unintended pregnancy and abortions of unintended pregnancies Bibliography Index

Amy Adamczyk is Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Sociology and Criminal Justice Doctoral Programs at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research focuses on how different contexts and personal religious beliefs shape people's deviant, moral, and health-related attitudes and behaviors. Her first book, Public Opinion about Homosexuality: Examining Attitudes Across the Globe, won the Outstanding Book Award from the International Section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.

Methodically and admirably, Adamczyk has accomplished the extremely difficult central task of charting global public opinions on abortion and mapping the different national characteristics and the factors behind these differences by featuring China and the US. This book is not just timely, but also a crucial pioneering contribution that is bound to stimulate more multidisciplinary academic explorations and public discussion on abortion and various related issues on a global stage.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Religion and Abortion Attitudes 2. The Role of Economics and Education in Shaping Public Opinion about Abortion 3. Democracy, Laws, and Policy in Shaping Abortion Views 4. Gender Equality, Social Movement Activity, and Race for Understanding Views about Abortion 5. Communism, Confucianism, Cultural Values and Survey Challenges for Understanding Abortion Attitudes 6. Investigating Cross-National Abortion Behavior and Its Relationship with Attitudes Conclusion Appendix A: Appendix A: WVS analysis Appendix B: Appendix B: Newspaper analysis Appendix C: Additional Indicators Considered for Explaining Survey Respondent's Abortion Disapproval in Multivariate Mixed-Models Appendix D: Regression analysis of the cross-national factors shaping rates of unintended pregnancy and abortions of unintended pregnancies Bibliography Index