Please join us for our Social Studies of Ethics, Morality, and Values Network Meeting when Prof. Amy Adamczyk will be giving a talk about her new book, Fetal Positions: Understanding Cross-National Public Opinion about Abortion, recently published by Oxford University Press.

The book is based on 40 interviews with experts in the US and China, a cross-national newspaper analysis, and survey data from over 200,000 people in 88 nations, representing the majority of the world's population.

The findings show that a handful of factors—overall levels of religious importance, Catholic proportion, economic and educational development, government history, and gender inequality—can explain differences in support. Dozens of interviews conducted in China and the United States offer insight into the processes shaping attitudes. Along with investigating why abortion disapproval varies so considerably across the world, Fetal Positions also examines the forces shaping cross-national abortion rates and personal abortion decisions, analyzes the links between attitudes and laws, and unpacks the pathways through which personal and country-characteristics shape views. By offering important insights that can only be gleaned through cross-national analysis, Fetal Positions provides an international focus and fresh perspective on the abortion debate.

About the speaker: Dr. Amy Adamczyk is Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Programs of Doctoral Study in Sociology and Criminal Justice at The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY). During the 2019-2020 school year she was the Interim Deputy Executive Officer of the Ph.D. Program in Criminal Justice at the Graduate Center. In 2005 she received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the Pennsylvania State University. She holds MA degrees from the University of Chicago and the Graduate Center/ Queens College, and she completed her BA degree at Hunter College.

This event will take place via zoom. Please register to receive a zoom link to join the meeting.