Attitudes toward the desirability of abortion were significaantly related to sex, college, classification, level of church activity, residence background, family size, exposure to abortion, and attitude toward premarital sex. The data suggest an increasing acceptance of abortion in the future. (Author)

Students judged abortion statements on response scales which were evaluatively congruent or incongruent with subject attitude. Interaction among attitude, statement favorability, and congruency of the response scale suggests, that evaluative implications of the response language serve as a discriminitive cue leading to polarized judgments. (Author)

Presents two studies of the relationship between student nurses' attitudes and patient perception with regard to abortion. Results indicate that the student nurses' judgments were related to their prevailing attitude toward abortion and to their religiosity. (Author/MA)