'They are Not the Ones Facing a Life Changing Choice': Public Attitudes to Anti-Reproductive Choice ('Pro-Life') Protests

This chapter reviews the history of women’s reproductive rights in Poland, starting with early 20th-century mobilizations, the de facto legalization of abortion during the communist era, and the post-1989 dramatic shift. It points to the cyclical nature of these struggles and mobilizations and also to the fact that they remain unresolved and are contested by both pro-choice and pro-life movements. The chapter examines these confrontations and shows how the alliance between state and church has produced a set of legal and moral controls over women’s bodies and shifted the power to decide away from women. It reviews restrictive legislation that has contributed to women’s and their families physical and emotional suffering and points to doctors’ complacency. It concludes that despite years of relentless pro-life pressure that has resulted in a change of public attitudes, women continue to resist, organize, and mobilize; thus, the struggle over women’s reproductive rights continues.

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U.S. Public Attitudes Toward the Afghanistan War

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e515082012-001 ◽

2011 ◽

Author(s):

Staci Rhine ◽

Stephen Bennett ◽

Richard Flickinger ◽

Ed Hasecke

Keyword(s):

Public Attitudes ◽

Afghanistan War

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Pro-Choice People are Immoral and Pro-Life People are Closed-Minded

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e566842012-043 ◽

2010 ◽

Author(s):

Josh D. Wondra ◽

Glenn D. Reeder

Keyword(s):

Pro Life ◽

Pro Choice

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Trust in the Police: Cross-country Comparisons

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2012-11-24-47 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 24-47

Author(s):

V. Gimpelson ◽

G. Monusova

Keyword(s):

Public Opinion ◽

Public Attitudes ◽

Crime Rates ◽

Authoritarian Regimes ◽

Data Sets ◽

The Public ◽

Positive Attitudes ◽

Cross Country ◽

Police Activity

Using different cross-country data sets and simple econometric techniques we study public attitudes towards the police. More positive attitudes are more likely to emerge in the countries that have better functioning democratic institutions, less prone to corruption but enjoy more transparent and accountable police activity. This has a stronger impact on the public opinion (trust and attitudes) than objective crime rates or density of policemen. Citizens tend to trust more in those (policemen) with whom they share common values and can have some control over. The latter is a function of democracy. In authoritarian countries — “police states” — this tendency may not work directly. When we move from semi-authoritarian countries to openly authoritarian ones the trust in the police measured by surveys can also rise. As a result, the trust appears to be U-shaped along the quality of government axis. This phenomenon can be explained with two simple facts. First, publicly spread information concerning police activity in authoritarian countries is strongly controlled; second, the police itself is better controlled by authoritarian regimes which are afraid of dangerous (for them) erosion of this institution.

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REFUSAL OF EMBRYON IMPLEMENTATION AS A COMPONENT OF REPRODUCTIVE CHOICE

Comparative-analytical law ◽

10.32782/2524-0390/2019.6.25 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 111-113

Author(s):

V.I. Checherskyi

Keyword(s):

Reproductive Choice

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A Subtle but Intractable Problem? Public Attitudes to Sectarianism in 2014

Scottish Affairs ◽

10.3366/scot.2015.0078 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 24 (3) ◽

pp. 266-287 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Rachel Ormston ◽

John Curtice ◽

Stephen Hinchliffe ◽

Anna Marcinkiewicz

Keyword(s):

Public Opinion ◽

Public Attitudes ◽

Evidence Base ◽

Social Attitudes ◽

The Public ◽

Public Beliefs ◽

Intractable Problem ◽

Robust Evidence

Discussion of sectarianism often focuses on evidence purporting to show discriminatory behaviour directed at Catholics or Protestants in Scotland. But attitudes also matter – in sustaining (or preventing) such discriminatory behaviours, and in understanding the nature of the ‘problem of sectarianism’ from the perspective of the Scottish public. This paper uses data from the Scottish Social Attitudes survey 2014. The survey fills a gap in the evidence base by providing robust evidence on what the public actually thinks about sectarianism in modern Scotland. It assesses public beliefs about the extent and nature of sectarianism and its perceived causes. Tensions in public opinion and differences in the attitudes of different sections of Scottish society are explored.

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