Abortion, Religion & Liberalism with Professor Amy Adamczyk

In this timely episode James and Will welcome Amy Adamczyk,
Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice
and The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Amy
discusses her sociological exploration of attitudes towards
abortion, in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) and other assisted
reproductive technologies (ARTs), and the role that religious and
other socio-demographic factors play in shaping these attitudes.
Amy presents the results of a comparative quantitative analysis
of attitudes to abortion across 70 countries, before presenting
findings of more in-depth qualitative work into attitudes in the
US and China, and the role of liberalism in these different
contexts. In the Chinese context, abortion is a less contentious
issue, and Amy discusses the comparative hardening of attitudes
to abortion in the US in the context of the Supreme Court's
overturning of the Roe vs Wade decision, which had guaranteed the
right to abortion across the US. Amy discusses the international
implications of this decision, whilst considering the
socio-economic and other demographic factors that influence
'country-level' attitudes to abortion and ARTs.