Attitudes toward and Perspectives on Abortion in Uganda: Development of an Abortion Positionality Framework.

Charles Katulamu, University of Michigan

Abortion has hitherto been surrounded by several views which have shaped how people react toward it. For a while, research has presented these views through a binary lens of positive (pro-choice) and negative (pro-life) attitudes toward abortion. However, there has been a growing concern that there is more beyond the dichotomy of pro-choice and pro-life attitudes toward abortion. This concern has been followed with recommendations for future research to consolidate the nuances and complex variations around abortion and develop a solution that could help in understanding attitudes toward abortion beyond the dichotomy. This study seeks to close this gap in the literature, first by reinforcing the existing nuances and complexities in abortion attitudes and second by providing a comprehensive, structured framework that reveals how far abortion attitudes are spread beyond the dichotomy. This framework advances the study of attitudes toward abortion and contributes to the design of abortion laws and policies.