Evidence of Abortion Attitude Flexibility during COVID-19 in Pernambuco, Brazil.

ABSTRACT: This study examines changes in women's attitudes toward abortion in Brazil during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on the role of religious affiliation. Brazil provides a unique context for examining abortion attitudes because of its strict abortion policies, changing religious landscape, and back-to-back Zika and COVID-19 crises. We used data from a population-based sample of 2335 women ages 18-34 in Pernambuco, Brazil, collected during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic (May-September 2020) and one year later (May-September 2021). Multivariable-adjusted multinomial logistic regression models were used to assess changes in support for abortion in cases of maternal Zika or COVID-19 infection during pregnancy. Women were less supportive of abortion in the case of maternal C

SUBMITTER: Whitfield B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12700129 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature