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Americans wrestle with definition of abortion

The shift from “choice” to “freedom” is interesting and merits further discussion. But even more interesting is research by the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion thinktank, which suggests that people have a wide range of views on what abortion is. In an article in the journal Social Science & Medicine, its researchers report on reactions to several vignettes. “Our biggest takeaway is that people do not hold a shared standard definition of what is and isn’t an abortion,” lead author Alicia VandeVusse told NPR. “We found that there’s a lot of nuance and ambiguity in how people are thinking about these issues and understanding these issues.”

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