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Mar 25, 2024 · In a Center survey conducted nearly a year after the Supreme Court’s June 2022 decision that ended the constitutional right to abortion, 62% of U.S. adults said the practice should be legal in all or most cases, while 36% said it should be illegal in all or most cases.
- Why do people care what strangers do? The evolutionary coin of the realm is fitness — getting more copies of your genes into the next generation. What faraway strangers do presumably has limited impact on your own fitness.
- Benefiting from making sex more costly. According to evolutionary social science, restricted sexual strategists benefit by imposing their strategic preferences on society — by curtailing other people’s sexual freedoms.
- Resolving awkward contradictions in attitudes. An evolutionary perspective suggests that common explanations are not the genuine drivers of people’s attitudes — on either side of the abortion debate.
- Behind the link to religion and conservatism. This evolutionary perspective can also explain why anti-abortion attitudes are so often associated with religion and social conservatism.
- Why Do People Care What Strangers do?
- Benefiting from Making Sex More Costly
- Resolving Awkward Contradictions in Attitudes
- Behind The Link to Religion and Conservatism
- Restricting Everyone to Benefit Yourself
The evolutionary coin of the realm is fitness – getting more copies of your genes into the next generation. What faraway strangers do presumably has limited impact on your own fitness. So from this perspective, it is a mystery why people in Pensacola care so strongly about what goes on in the bedrooms of Philadelphia or the Planned Parenthoods of L...
According to evolutionary social science, restricted sexual strategists benefit by imposing their strategic preferences on society – by curtailing other people’s sexual freedoms. How can restricted sexual strategists achieve this? By making casual sex more costly. For example, banning women’s access to safe and legal abortion essentially forces the...
An evolutionary perspective suggests that common explanations are not the genuine drivers of people’s attitudes – on either side of the abortion debate. In fact, people’s stated religious, political and ideological explanations are often rife with awkward contradictions. For example, many who oppose abortion also oppose preventing unwanted pregnanc...
This evolutionary perspective can also explain why anti-abortion attitudes are so often associated with religion and social conservatism. Rather than thinking that religiosity causes people to be sexually restricted, this perspective suggests that a restricted sexual strategy can motivate people to become religious. Why? Several scholars have sugge...
There are multiple answers to any “why” questionin scientific research. Ideological beliefs, personal histories and other factors certainly play a role in people’s abortion attitudes. But so, too, do people’s sexual strategies. This evolutionary social science research suggests that restricted sexual strategists benefit by making everyone else play...
Jul 28, 2022 · Where will they be fought? And what do they mean for American federalism? Rachel Rebouché: With Roe v. Wade overturned, states now have broad leeway to restrict and ban abortion at any stage of pregnancy. The legal landscape, as well as how people gain access to abortion, will depend on where one lives.
Carhart, the Court considered whether the federal law was overbroad, prohibiting both the standard dilation and evacuation (D&E) abortion method—the most common method during the second trimester of pregnancy—and the intact D&E method, described by some as “partial-birth” abortion because the fetus is more fully developed at the time ...
Dec 2, 2021 · Dec. 2, 2021. With the Supreme Court now looking likely to weaken or overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision on abortion, activists and both political parties are bracing for a new battle over...
May 10, 2022 · COMMENTARY. Abortion May Cause a Federalism Crisis. The reasoning in leaked draft U.S. Supreme Court opinion in 'Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization' can also be applied to void other...