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A questionnaire assessing beliefs about the permissibility of abortion was administered to 70 single women who had never been pregnant (n = 22) or who were deciding to terminate (n = 25) or continue (n --23) an unplanned pregnancy. Respondents were given a list of 22 circumstances and asked to indicate the general permissibility and the permissibility for themselves of each item, in addition to indicating the most and least adequate circumstances for abortion. Factor analysis revealed similar structures of beliefs when women considered what was permissible for others as for themselves, although the factors reversed in importance in the two conditions. With the exception of one factor of the general permissibility of abortion, all the factors discriminated between women deciding to have abortions and women deciding t ~ continue their pregnancies. The origin of these different judgments is discussed. Abortion continues to be one of the most polarizing issues of this decade. While the 1973 Supreme Court ruling has established abortion as a private matter at the discretion of the individual woman, public debate is continuing, and the legality This research was supported by Grant #BNS76-83384 from the National Science Foundation and represents a portion of the research submitted in partial satisfaction Of the requirements for the Ph.D. degree at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The author gratefully acknowledges the contributions of Drs. Nancy Adler, M. Brewster Smith, and Elliot Turiel. An earlier version of this paper was presented at a symposium on Current Research on Contraception and Abortion at the 86th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association in Toronto, Canada. Requests for reprints should be sent to the author at the Universityof Michigan, Psychology Dept., 580 Union Drive, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109.

Beliefs about the permissibility of abortion and their relationship to decisions regarding abortion